Elementary Proofs of Parity Results for 5-regular Partitions
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In a recent paper, Calkin et al. [N. Calkin, N. Drake, K. James, S. Law, P. Lee, D. Penniston and J. Radder, ‘Divisibility properties of the 5-regular and 13-regular partition functions’, Integers 8 (2008), #A60] used the theory of modular forms to examine 5-regular partitions modulo 2 and 13-regular partitions modulo 2 and 3; they obtained and conjectured various results. In this note, we use nothing more than Jacobi’s triple product identity to obtain results for 5-regular partitions that are stronger than those obtained by Calkin and his collaborators. We find infinitely many Ramanujan-type congruences for b5(n), and we prove the striking result that the number of 5-regular partitions of the number n is even for at least 75% of the positive integers n. 2000 Mathematics subject classification: primary 11P83; secondary 05A17.
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