Dancing Samba with Ramanujan Partition Congruences

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Abstract

The article presents an algorithm to compute a $C[t]$-module basis $G$ for a given subalgebra $A$ over a polynomial ring $R=C[x]$ with a Euclidean domain $C$ as the domain of coefficients and $t$ a given element of $A$. The reduction modulo $G$ allows a subalgebra membership test. The algorithm also works for more general rings $R$, in particular for a ring $R\subset C((q))$ with the property that $f\in R$ is zero if and only if the order of $f$ is positive. As an application, we algorithmically derive an explicit identity (in terms of quotients of Dedekind $\eta$-functions and Klein's $j$-invariant) that shows that $p(11n+6)$ is divisible by 11 for every natural number $n$ where $p(n)$ denotes the number of partitions of $n$.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)14-24
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Symbolic Computation
Volume84
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Fields of science

  • 101 Mathematics
  • 101001 Algebra
  • 101005 Computer algebra
  • 101009 Geometry
  • 101012 Combinatorics
  • 101013 Mathematical logic
  • 101020 Technical mathematics

JKU Focus areas

  • Computation in Informatics and Mathematics

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