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The concept of a multipartition of a number, which has proved so useful in the study of Lie algebras, is studied for its own intrinsic interest. Following up on the work of Atkin, we shall present an infinite family of congruences for P_k (n), the number of k-component
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Andrews, G.E. (2008). A Survey of Multipartitions Congruences and Identities. In: Surveys in Number Theory. Developments in Mathematics, vol 17. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78510-3_1
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