Displaying 81 – 100 of 178

Showing per page

Compositions of n as alternating sequences of weakly increasing and strictly decreasing partitions

Aubrey Blecher, Charlotte Brennan, Toufik Mansour (2012)

Open Mathematics

Compositions and partitions of positive integers are often studied in separate frameworks where partitions are given by q-series generating functions and compositions exhibiting specific patterns are designated by generating functions for these patterns. Here, we view compositions as alternating sequences of weakly increasing and strictly decreasing partitions (i.e. alternating blocks). We obtain generating functions for the number of such partitions in terms of the size of the composition, the...

Congruences for certain binomial sums

Jung-Jo Lee (2013)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

We exploit the properties of Legendre polynomials defined by the contour integral 𝐏 n ( z ) = ( 2 π i ) - 1 ( 1 - 2 t z + t 2 ) - 1 / 2 t - n - 1 d t , where the contour encloses the origin and is traversed in the counterclockwise direction, to obtain congruences of certain sums of central binomial coefficients. More explicitly, by comparing various expressions of the values of Legendre polynomials, it can be proved that for any positive integer r , a prime p 5 and n = r p 2 - 1 , we have k = 0 n / 2 2 k k 0 , 1 or - 1 ( mod p 2 ) , depending on the value of r ( mod 6 ) .

Currently displaying 81 – 100 of 178