Combinatorial Identities for \(\ell\)-Regular Overpartitions

Abdulaziz M.Alanazi1, Augustine O.Munagi2
1ScHOOL OF MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA,
2THe JOHN KNOPFMACHER CENTRE FOR APPLICABLE ANALYSIS AND NUMBER THE- ory, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA,

Abstract

We explore new combinatorial properties of overpartitions, which are natural generalizations of integer partitions. Building on recent work, we state general combinatorial identities between standard partition, overpartition, and regular partition functions. We provide both generating function and bijective proofs. We also prove congruences for certain overpartition functions combinatorially.