Congruence relations for r-colored partitions

Abstract: Let

e l l g e q 5

be prime. For the partition function

p (n)

and

5 l e q e l l l e q 31

, Atkin found a number of examples of primes

Q g e q 5

such that there exist congruences of the form

Recently, Ahlgren, Allen, and Tang proved that there are infinitely many such congruences for every

e l l

. In this paper, for a wide range of

c i n m a t h b b F_{e l l}

, we prove congruences of the form

for infinitely many primes

Q

. For a positive integer

r

, let

p_{r} (n)

be the

r

-colored partition function. Our methods yield similar congruences for

p_{r} (n)

. In particular, if

r

is an odd positive integer for which

e l l > 5 r + 19

and

2^{r + 2} o t e q u i v 2^{p m 1} p m o d e l l

, then we show that there are infinitely many congruences of the form

. Our methods involve the theory of modular Galois representations.

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