The Ramanujan Journal

, Volume 12, Issue 3, pp 315–320 | Cite as

A four-parameter partition identity

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Abstract

We present a new partition identity and give a combinatorial proof of our result. This generalizes a result of Andrews in which he considers the generating function for partitions with respect to size, number of odd parts, and number of odd parts of the conjugate.

Keywords

Partitions Bijective proof Partition identity 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of MathematicsCornell UniversityIthaca

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