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Ramanujan Congruences for p-k(n)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. O. L. Atkin
A. O. L. Atkin*
Affiliation:
The Atlas Computer Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, England
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Let

1

2

Thus p-1(n) = p(n) is just the partition function, for which Ramanujan (4) found congruence properties modulo powers of 5, 7, and 11. Ramanathan (3) considers the generalization of these congruences modulo powers of 5 and 7 for all ; unfortunately his results are incorrect, because of an error in his Lemma 4 on which his main theorems depend. This error is essentially a misquotation of the results of Watson (5), which one may readily understand in view of Watson's formidable notation.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 20 , 1968 , pp. 67 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1968

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