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CONGRUENCES MODULO POWERS OF 2 FOR FU’S 5 DOTS BRACELET PARTITIONS

Part of: Combinatorics Additive number theory; partitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2013

ERNEST X. W. XIA  and
OLIVIA X. M. YAO
ERNEST X. W. XIA
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Jiangsu University, Jiangsu, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China email Ernestxwxia@163.com
OLIVIA X. M. YAO*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Jiangsu University, Jiangsu, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China email Ernestxwxia@163.com
*
✉yaoxiangmei@163.com
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Abstract

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In 2007, Andrews and Paule introduced a new class of combinatorial objects called broken $k$-diamond partitions. Recently, Shishuo Fu generalised the notion of broken $k$-diamond partitions to combinatorial objects which he termed $k$ dots bracelet partitions. Fu denoted the number of $k$ dots bracelet partitions of $n$ by ${\mathfrak{B}}_{k} (n)$ and proved several congruences modulo primes and modulo powers of 2. More recently, Radu and Sellers extended the set of congruences proven by Fu by proving three congruences modulo squares of primes for ${\mathfrak{B}}_{5} (n)$, ${\mathfrak{B}}_{7} (n)$ and ${\mathfrak{B}}_{11} (n)$. In this note, we prove some congruences modulo powers of 2 for ${\mathfrak{B}}_{5} (n)$. For example, we find that for all integers $n\geq 0$, ${\mathfrak{B}}_{5} (16n+ 7)\equiv 0\hspace{0.167em} ({\rm mod} \hspace{0.334em} {2}^{5} )$.

Keywords

congruences2-dissectionspartitionsk dots bracelet partitions

MSC classification

Secondary: 11P83: Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions 05A17: Partitions of integers
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 89 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 360 - 372
Copyright
Copyright ©2013 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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