{"title":"On near orthogonality of certain k-vectors involving generalized Ramanujan sums","authors":"Neha Elizabeth Thomas, K. Vishnu Namboothiri","doi":"10.1007/s11139-024-00874-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-024-00874-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The near orthgonality of certain <i>k</i>-vectors involving the Ramanujan sums were studied by Alkan (J Number Theory 140:147–168, 2014). Here we undertake the study of similar vectors involving a generalization of the Ramanujan sums defined by Cohen (Duke Math J 16(2):85–90, 1949). We also prove that the weighted average <span>(frac{1}{k^{s(r+1)}}sum limits _{j=1}^{k^s}j^rc_k^{(s)}(j))</span> remains positive for all <span>(rge 1)</span>. Further, we give a lower bound for <span>(max limits _{N}left| sum limits _{j=1}^{N^s}c_k^{(s)}(j) right| )</span>.</p>","PeriodicalId":501430,"journal":{"name":"The Ramanujan Journal","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141153891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On a generalization of 5-dissections of some infinite q-products","authors":"Channabasavayya, Gedela Kavya Keerthana, Ranganatha Dasappa","doi":"10.1007/s11139-024-00872-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-024-00872-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501430,"journal":{"name":"The Ramanujan Journal","volume":"45 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exact formula for cubic partitions","authors":"Lukas Mauth","doi":"10.1007/s11139-024-00871-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-024-00871-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We obtain an exact formula for the cubic partition function and prove a conjecture by Banerjee, Paule, Radu and Zeng.</p>","PeriodicalId":501430,"journal":{"name":"The Ramanujan Journal","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141152167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deviation of the rank and crank modulo 11","authors":"Nikolay E. Borozenets","doi":"10.1007/s11139-024-00873-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-024-00873-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we build on the recent results of Frank Garvan and Rishabh Sarma as well as classical results of Bruce Berndt in order to establish the 11-dissection of the deviations of the rank and crank modulo 11. Using our new dissections, we re-derive the results of Garvan, Atkin, Swinnerton-Dyer, Hussain, Ekin and Chern. By developing and exploiting positivity conditions for quotients of theta functions, we will also prove new rank–crank inequalities and make several conjectures, one of which was recently solved by Kathrin Bringmann and Badri Vishal Pandey. For other applications of our methods, in this paper, we will also prove new congruences for rank moments as well as the Andrews’ smallest parts function and Eisenstein series.</p>","PeriodicalId":501430,"journal":{"name":"The Ramanujan Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141152159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A combinatorial proof of q-log-concavity of q-Eulerian numbers","authors":"Xinmiao Liu, Jiangxia Hou, Fengxia Liu","doi":"10.1007/s11139-024-00841-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-024-00841-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Carlitz established a <i>q</i>-analog of the Eulerian numbers <span>(A_{n,k}(q))</span> and defined the relationship <span>(A_{n,k}(q)=q^{frac{(n-k)(n-k+1)}{2}}A_{n,k}^{*}(q))</span>. In this paper, by using the combinatorial interpretation of <span>(A_{n,k}^{*}(q))</span> and constructing injective maps, we prove that <span>(A_{n,k}^{*}(q))</span> and <span>(A_{n,k}(q))</span> are <i>q</i>-log-concave, that is, all the coefficients of the polynomials <span>(( A_{n,k}^{*}(q)) ^{2}- A_{n,k-1}^{*}(q) A_{n,k+1}^{*}(q) )</span> and <span>((A_{n,k}(q)) ^{2}- A_{n,k-1}(q) A_{n,k+1}(q))</span> are nonnegative for <span>(1< k <n)</span>.</p>","PeriodicalId":501430,"journal":{"name":"The Ramanujan Journal","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141060792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The divisibility of the class number of the imaginary quadratic fields $${mathbb {Q}}(sqrt{1-2m^k})$$","authors":"S. Krishnamoorthy, R. Muneeswaran","doi":"10.1007/s11139-024-00860-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-024-00860-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501430,"journal":{"name":"The Ramanujan Journal","volume":"31 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140968340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Figurate numbers, forms of mixed type, and their representation numbers","authors":"B. Ramakrishnan, Lalit Vaishya","doi":"10.1007/s11139-024-00868-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-024-00868-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501430,"journal":{"name":"The Ramanujan Journal","volume":"48 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140970864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}