Congruences for cubic partition pairs modulo powers of 3

The Ramanujan Journal - Tập 46 - Trang 563-578 - 2017
Bernard L. S. Lin1, Liuquan Wang2, Ernest X. W. Xia3
1School of Science, Jimei University, Xiamen, People’s Republic of China
2School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
3Department of Mathematics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, People’s Republic of China

Tóm tắt

Let b(n) be the number of cubic partition pairs of n. We establish three congruences for b(n) modulo arbitrary powers of 3. Meanwhile, we prove some conjectures proposed by the first author.

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