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ON 3k-REGULAR CUBIC PARTITIONS

  • Received : 2021.08.27
  • Accepted : 2022.02.04
  • Published : 2022.07.01
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Abstract

Recently, Gireesh, Shivashankar, and Naika [11] found some infinite classes of congruences for the 3- and the 9-regular cubic partitions modulo powers of 3. We extend their study to all the 3k-regular cubic partitions. We also find new families of congruences.

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The authors are thankful to the anonymous reviewer for his/her helpful comments on the paper.

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