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PARITY RESULTS FOR PARTITIONS WHEREIN EACH PART APPEARS AN ODD NUMBER OF TIMES

Part of: Combinatorics Additive number theory; partitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2018

MICHAEL D. HIRSCHHORN  and
JAMES A. SELLERS
MICHAEL D. HIRSCHHORN
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW, Sydney 2052, Australia email m.hirschhorn@unsw.edu.au
JAMES A. SELLERS*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA email sellersj@psu.edu
*
✉sellersj@psu.edu
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Abstract

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We consider the function $f(n)$ that enumerates partitions of weight $n$ wherein each part appears an odd number of times. Chern [‘Unlimited parity alternating partitions’, Quaest. Math. (to appear)] noted that such partitions can be placed in one-to-one correspondence with the partitions of $n$ which he calls unlimited parity alternating partitions with smallest part odd. Our goal is to study the parity of $f(n)$ in detail. In particular, we prove a characterisation of $f(2n)$ modulo 2 which implies that there are infinitely many Ramanujan-like congruences modulo 2 satisfied by the function $f.$ The proof techniques are elementary and involve classical generating function dissection tools.

Keywords

congruencespartitionsgenerating functions

MSC classification

Primary: 11P83: Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions
Secondary: 05A17: Partitions of integers
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 99 , Issue 1 , February 2019 , pp. 51 - 55
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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