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Refinement of some partition identities of Merca and Yee

Pankaj Jyoti Mahanta

Gonit Sora, Dhalpur, Assam 784165, India

E-mail Address: pankaj@gonitsora.com

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Manjil P. Saikia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2997-6731

School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 4AG, UK

E-mail Address: manjil@saikia.in

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793042122500592Cited by:2 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Recently, Merca and Yee proved some partition identities involving two new partition statistics. We refine these statistics and generalize the results of Merca and Yee. We also correct a small mistake in a result of Merca and Yee.

Keywords:

AMSC: 11P83, 11P84, 05A17, 05A19

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