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Identities and Congruences of theRamanujan Type
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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Let P(n) denote the number of unrestricted partitions of the positive integer n. Ramanujan conjectured that
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if . He also indicated that such congruences could be deduced from identities of the type
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1 Ramanujan, S. Collected papers, Cambridge, 1927.Google Scholar
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5 depends on p. We omit this suffix p in general, but when explicit reference has to be made we write .
6 Watson, loc. cit., pp. 106, 119, 120.
7 There is another method of obtaining expressions for as polynomials in . This will be published elsewhere.
8 shall mean summation from i = 1 to a sufficiently large i.
9 The construction of the function Fn,v(T) is suggested by the work of Rademacher, p. 622 and 624.
10 To avoid complication we have not shown in ai(n), its dependence on v and p.
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