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OVERPARTITIONS RELATED TO THE MOCK THETA FUNCTION $V_{0}(q)$

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

BERNARD L. S. LIN*
Affiliation:
School of Science, Jimei University, Xiamen361021, PR China email linlsjmu@163.com

Abstract

Recently, Brietzke, Silva and Sellers [‘Congruences related to an eighth order mock theta function of Gordon and McIntosh’, J. Math. Anal. Appl.479 (2019), 62–89] studied the number $v_{0}(n)$ of overpartitions of $n$ into odd parts without gaps between the nonoverlined parts, whose generating function is related to the mock theta function $V_{0}(q)$ of order 8. In this paper we first present a short proof of the 3-dissection for the generating function of $v_{0}(2n)$. Then we establish three congruences for $v_{0}(n)$ along certain progressions which are subsequences of the integers $4n+3$.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2020 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 11871246), the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China (no. 2019J01328) and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Fujian Province University (no. B17160).

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