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A Parity Result for Some \(p\)-Regular Partitions

Darlison Nyirenda1
1School of Mathematics University of the Witwatersrand Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa

Abstract

Let \(p > 2\) be prime and \(r \in \{1,2, \ldots, p-1\}\). Denote by \(c_{p}(n)\) the number of \(p\)-regular partitions of \(n\) in which parts can occur not more than three times. We prove the following: If \(8r + 1\) is a quadratic non-residue modulo \(p\), \(c_{p}(pn + r) \equiv 0 \pmod{2}\) for all nonnegative integers \(n\).

Keywords: Partition, Generating function, Quadratic non-residue