On the number of solutions of N - p = Pr.
Letwhere denotes the number of subgroups of all abelian groups whose order does not exceed and whose rank does not exceed , and is the error term. It is proved that
Improving on some results of J.-L. Nicolas [15], the elements of the set , for which the partition function (i.e. the number of partitions of with parts in ) is even for all are determined. An asymptotic estimate to the counting function of this set is also given.