Kyungpook Mathematical Journal 2023; 63(2): 155-166
Published online June 30, 2023
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Congruences for Partition Functions EO¯(n) and EOe(n)
Riyajur Rahman and Nipen Saikia*
Department of Mathematics, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Doimukh 791112, Arunachal Pradesh, India
e-mail : riyajurrahman@gmail.com and nipennak@yahoo.com
Received: February 11, 2022; Revised: October 13, 2022; Accepted: January 17, 2023
In 2018, Andrews introduced the partition functions EO(n) and EO¯(n). The first of these denotes the number of partitions of n in which every even part is less than each odd part, and the second counts the number of partitions enumerated by the first in which only the largest even part appears an odd number of times. In 2021, Pore and Fathima introduced a new partition function EOe(n) which counts the number of partitions of n which are enumerated by EO¯(n) together with the partitions enumerated by EO(n) where all parts are odd and the number of parts is even. They also proved some particular congruences for EO¯(n) and EOe(n). In this paper, we establish infinitely many families of congruences modulo 2, 4, 5 and 8 for EO¯(n) and modulo 4 for EOe(n). For example, if p≥5 is a prime with Legendre symbol −3p=−1, then for all integers n≥ 0 and α≥0, we have
EO¯8⋅p2α+1(pn+j)+19⋅p2α+2−13≡0 mod8; 1≤j≤(p−1).
Keywords: Partitions of integer, congruences, q-series identities