A unifying combinatorial approach to refined little Göllnitz and Capparelli's companion identities

Abstract

Berkovich–Uncu have recently proved a companion of the well-known Capparelli's identities as well as refinements of Savage–Sills's new little Göllnitz identities. Noticing the connection between their results and Boulet's earlier four-parameter partition generating functions, we discover a new class of partitions, called k-strict partitions, to generalize their results. By applying both horizontal and vertical dissections of Ferrers' diagrams with appropriate labellings, we provide a unified combinatorial treatment of their results and shed more lights on the intriguing conditions of their companion to Capparelli's identities.