Padmavathamma, B. M. Chandrashekara, R. Raghavendra and Christian Krattenthaler

Analytic proof of the partition identity A5,3,3(n) = B05,3,3(n)

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Abstract. In this paper we give an analytic proof of the identity A5,3,3(n) = B05,3,3(n), where A5,3,3(n) counts the number of partitions of n subject to certain restrictions on their parts, and B05,3,3(n) counts the number of partitions of n subject to certain other restrictions on their parts, both too long to be stated in the abstract. Our proof establishes actually a refinement of that partition identity. The original identity was first discovered by the first author jointly with M. Ruby Salestina and S. R. Sudarshan in [``A new theorem on partitions," Proc. Int. Conference on Special Functions, IMSC, Chennai, India, September 23-27, 2002; to appear], where it was also given a combinatorial proof, thus responding a question of Andrews.


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