On the number of parts in all partitions enumerated by the Rogers-Ramanujan identities

Abstract: The celebrated Rogers-Ramanujan identities equate the number of integer partitions of

n

(

n i n m a t h b b N_{0}

) with parts congruent to

p m 1 p m o d 5

(respectively

p m 2 p m o d 5

) and the number of partitions of

n

with super-distinct parts (respectively super-distinct parts greater than

1

). In this paper, we establish companion identities to the Rogers-Ramanujan identities on the number of parts in all partitions of

n

of the aforementioned types, in the spirit of earlier work by Andrews and Beck on a partition identity of Euler.

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