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arxiv: 1805.08942 · v1 · pith:A57E6M4Pnew · submitted 2018-05-23 · 🧮 math.CO

Congruences modulo powers of 3 for 2-color partition triples

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Let $p_{k,3}(n)$ enumerate the number of 2-color partition triples of $n$ where one of the colors appears only in parts that are multiples of $k$. In this paper, we prove several infinite families of congruences modulo powers of 3 for $p_{k,3}(n)$ with $k=1, 3$, and $9$. For example, for all integers $n\geq0$ and $\alpha\geq1$, we prove that \begin{align*} p_{3,3}\left(3^{\alpha}n+\dfrac{3^{\alpha}+1}{2}\right) &\equiv0\pmod{3^{\alpha+1}} \end{align*} and \begin{align*} p_{3,3}\left(3^{\alpha+1}n+\dfrac{5\times3^{\alpha}+1}{2}\right) &\equiv0\pmod{3^{\alpha+4}}. \end{align*}

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