On the number of partitions with designated summands

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2013.02.010MaRDI QIDQ740844zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William Y. C. Chen, Hai-Tao Jin, Erin Y. Y. Shen, Kathy Q. Ji

Publication date 9 September 2014

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2210

zbMATH Keywords

cubic theta functionRamanujan's cubic continued fractionpartition with designated summandsRamanujan-type identity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) (q)-calculus and related topics (05A30) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83)

Abstract: Andrews, Lewis and Lovejoy introduced the partition function PD(n) as the number of partitions of $n$ with designated summands, where we assume that among parts with equal size, exactly one is designated. They proved that PD(3n+2) is divisible by 3. We obtain a Ramanujan type identity for the generating function of PD(3n+2) which implies the congruence of Andrews, Lewis and Lovejoy. For PD(3n), Andrews, Lewis and Lovejoy showed that the generating function can be expressed as an infinite product of powers of $(1-q^{2n+1})$ times a function $F(q^2)$. We find an explicit formula for $F(q^2)$, which leads to a formula for the generating function of PD(3n). We also obtain a formula for the generating function of PD(3n+1). Our proofs rely on Chan's identity on Ramanujan's cubic continued fraction and some identities on cubic theta functions. By introducing a rank for the partitions with designed summands, we give a combinatorial interpretation of the congruence of Andrews, Lewis and Lovejoy.

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