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INFINITE FAMILIES OF CONGRUENCES FOR OVERPARTITIONS WITH RESTRICTED ODD DIFFERENCES

Part of: Additive number theory; partitions Combinatorics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2020

BERNARD L. S. LIN Open the ORCID record for BERNARD L. S. LIN [Opens in a new window] ,
JIAN LIU Open the ORCID record for JIAN LIU [Opens in a new window] ,
ANDREW Y. Z. WANG Open the ORCID record for ANDREW Y. Z. WANG [Opens in a new window]  and
JIEJUAN XIAO Open the ORCID record for JIEJUAN XIAO [Opens in a new window]
BERNARD L. S. LIN
Affiliation:
School of Science, Jimei University, Xiamen361021, P. R. China email linlsjmu@163.com
JIAN LIU
Affiliation:
School of Insurance, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing102206, P. R. China email liujian@cufe-ins.sinanet.com
ANDREW Y. Z. WANG*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu611731, P. R. China email yzwang@uestc.edu.cn
JIEJUAN XIAO
Affiliation:
School of Science, Jimei University, Xiamen361021, P. R. China email m18959257030@163.com
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✉yzwang@uestc.edu.cn
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Abstract

Let $\overline{t}(n)$ be the number of overpartitions in which (i) the difference between successive parts may be odd only if the larger part is overlined and (ii) if the smallest part is odd then it is overlined. Ramanujan-type congruences for $\overline{t}(n)$ modulo small powers of $2$ and $3$ have been established. We present two infinite families of congruences modulo $5$ and $27$ for $\overline{t}(n)$, the first of which generalises a recent result of Chern and Hao [‘Congruences for two restricted overpartitions’, Proc. Math. Sci. 129 (2019), Article 31].

Keywords

overpartitioncongruencedissection

MSC classification

Primary: 11P83: Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions
Secondary: 05A17: Partitions of integers
Type
Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 102 , Issue 1 , August 2020 , pp. 59 - 66
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Footnotes

The first author was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11871246), the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China (No. 2019J01328) and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Fujian Province University (No. B17160).

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