Ramanujan-type Congruences for Overpartitions Modulo 5

William Y.C. Chen, Lisa H. Sun, Rong-Hua Wang and Li Zhang

  Abstract:   Let (n) denote the number of overpartitions of n. In this paper, we show that (5n) (-1)n (4 ⋅ 5n) (mod 5) for n ≥ 0 and (n) ≡ (-1)np(4n) (mod 8) for n ≥ 0 by using the relation of the generating function of (5n) modulo 5 found by Treneer and the 2-adic expansion of the generating function of (n) due to Mahlburg. As a consequence, we deduce that (4k(40n + 35)) ≡ 0 (mod 40) for n, k ≥ 0. Furthermore, applying the Hecke operator on φ(q)3 and the fact that φ(q)3 is a Hecke eigenform, we obtain an infinite family of congrences (4k ⋅ 5l2n) ≡ 0 (mod 5), where k ≥ 0 and l is a prime such that l ≡ 3 (mod 5) and (-n/l) = -1. Moreover, we show that (52n) ≡ (54n) (mod 5) for n ≥ 0. So we are led to the congruences (4k52i+3 (5n ± 1)) ≡ 0 (mod 5) for n, k, i ≥ 0. In this way, we obtain various Ramanujan-type congruences for (n) modulo 5 such as (45(3n + 1)) ≡ 0 (mod 5) and (125(5n ± 1)) ≡ 0 (mod 5) for n ≥ 0.

 AMS Classification:  05A17, 11P83

 Keywords:   overpartition, Ramanujan-type congruence, modular form, Hecke operator, Hecke eigenform

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