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POWER PARTITIONS AND SEMI-$m$-FIBONACCI PARTITIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2020

ABDULAZIZ M. ALANAZI
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Tabuk, P.O. Box 741, Tabuk 71491, Saudi Arabia email am.alenezi@ut.edu.sa
AUGUSTINE O. MUNAGI
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa email augustine.munagi@wits.ac.za
DARLISON NYIRENDA*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa email darlison.nyirenda@wits.ac.za

Abstract

Andrews [‘Binary and semi-Fibonacci partitions’, J. Ramanujan Soc. Math. Math. Sci.7(1) (2019), 1–6] recently proved a new identity between the cardinalities of the set of semi-Fibonacci partitions and the set of partitions into powers of 2 with all parts appearing an odd number of times. We extend the identity to the set of semi-$m$-Fibonacci partitions of $n$ and the set of partitions of $n$ into powers of $m$ in which all parts appear with multiplicity not divisible by $m$. We also give a new characterisation of semi-$m$-Fibonacci partitions and some congruences satisfied by the associated number sequence.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2020 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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