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On Product Partitions of Integers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

V. C. Harris  and
M. V. Subbarao
V. C. Harris
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182, USA
M. V. Subbarao
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G1
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Abstract

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Let p*(n) denote the number of product partitions, that is, the number of ways of expressing a natural number n > 1 as the product of positive integers ≥ 2, the order of the factors in the product being irrelevant, with p*(1) = 1. For any integer if d is an ith power, and = 1, otherwise, and let . Using a suitable generating function for p*(n) we prove that

Keywords

11N3711N25
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , 01 December 1991 , pp. 474 - 479
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1991

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