Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In 2014, as part of a larger study of overpartitions with restrictions of the overlined parts based on residue classes, Munagi and Sellers [Util.Math.95 (2014) 33-49] defined d2(n) as the number of overpartitions of weight n wherein only even parts can be overlined.As part of that work, they used a generating function approach to prove a parity characterization for d2(n).In this article, we give a combinatorial proof of their result and extend it to a modulus four characterization; we provide both generating function and combinatorial proofs of this stronger result.The combinatorial arguments incorporate classical bijections of Franklin, Glaisher, and Sylvester.
Source: Discrete Mathematics Letters
Authors: Carlson, Aidan, Hopkins, Brian, Sellers, James A.
Language: English
Subfield: Algebra and Number Theory
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405759308