CONGRUENCES FOR k DOTS BRACELET PARTITION FUNCTIONS

Abstract

Andrews and Paule introduced broken k-diamond partitions by using MacMahon's partition analysis. Recently, Fu found a generalization which he called k dots bracelet partitions and investigated some congruences for this kind of partitions. In this paper, by finding congruence relations between the generating function for 5 dots bracelet partitions and that for 5-regular partitions, we get some new congruences modulo 2 for the 5 dots bracelet partition function. Moreover, for a given prime p, we study arithmetic properties modulo p of k dots bracelet partitions.