Congruences modulo $4$ for the number of $3$-regular partitions

Abstract

The last decade has seen an abundance of congruences for $b_\ell (n)$, the number of $\ell $-regular partitions of $n$. Notably absent are congruences modulo $4$ for $b_3(n)$. In this paper, we introduce Ramanujan type congruences modulo $4$ for $b_3(2n)$ involving some primes $p$ congruent to $ 11, 13, 17, 19, 23$ modulo $24$.

Keywords

• partitions
• regular partitions
• congruences