1. Fonctions de partitions a` parite´ pe´riodique
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Lahouar, Houda
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SET theory , *NUMBER theory , *MATHEMATICAL functions , *MATHEMATICS , *ALGEBRA - Abstract
Let
N be the set of positive integers andA a subset ofN . Forn∈N , letp(A,n) denote the number of partitions ofn with parts inA . In the paper J. Number Theory 73 (1998) 292, Nicolas et al. proved that, given anyN∈N andB⊂{1,2,…,N} , there is a unique setA=A0(B,N) , such thatp(A,n) is even forn>N . Soon after, Ben Saı¨d and Nicolas (Acta Arith. 106 (2003) 183) consideredσ(A,n)=∑d∣n,d∈Ad , and proved that for allk≥0 , the sequence(σ(A,2kn) mod 2k+1)n≥1 is periodic onn . In this paper, we generalise the above works for any formal power seriesf inF2[z] withf(0)=1 , by constructing a setA such that the generating functionfA ofA is congruent tof modulo 2, and by showing that iff=P/Q , whereP andQ are inF2[z] withP(0)=Q(0)=1 , then for allk≥0 the sequence(σ(A,2kn) mod 2k+1)n≥1 is periodic onn . [Copyright &y& Elsevier]- Published
- 2003
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