International Journal in IT & Engineering
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 3

The number of Smallest parts of partitions of n

  • Author:
  • K. Hanuma Reddy, A. Manjusri
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 252 to 257

*Department of mathematics, Hindu College, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, A.P.-522002, India

**Department of Mathematics, Hindu College, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, A.P-522002, India

Subject classification: 11P81 Elementary theory of partitions

Abstract

George E Andrews derived formula for the number of smallest parts of partitions of a positive integer n. In this paper we derived the formula efficiently by using the concepts of r-partitions of n.

Keywords

Partition, t-smallest parts of the partition and of positive integer n