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Some Observations on Modulo 5 Congruences for 2-Color Partitions

Suparno Ghoshal·Sourav Sen Gupta
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The 2-color partitions may be considered as an extension of regular partitions of a natural number $n$, with $p_{k}(n)$ defined as the number of 2-colored partitions of $n$ where one of the 2 colors appears only in parts that are multiples of $k$. In this paper, we record the complete characterization of the modulo 5 congruence relation $p_{k}(25n + 24 - k) \equiv 0 \pmod{5}$ for $k \in \{1, 2, \ldots, 24\}$, in connection with the 2-color partition function $p_k(n)$, providing references to existing results for $k \in \{1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 17\}$, simple proofs for $k \in \{5, 10, 15, 20\}$ for the sake of completeness, and counter-examples in all the remaining cases. We also propose an alternative proof in the case of $k = 4$, without using the Rogers-Ramanujan ratio, thereby making the proof considerably simpler compared to the proof by Ahmed, Baruah and Ghosh Dastidar (JNT 2015).

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Suparno Ghoshal, Sourav Sen Gupta. 2018-01-28. Some Observations on Modulo 5 Congruences for 2-Color Partitions. https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09723

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