{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/the-restricted-partition-and-q-partial","title":"The Restricted Partition and q-Partial Fractions","arxiv_id":"2202.03603","date":"2022-02-08","proceeding":null,"authors":["N. Uday Kiran"],"abstract":"The restricted partition function $p_{N}(n)$ counts the partitions of $n$ into at most $N$ parts. In the nineteenth century Sylvester showed that these partitions can be expressed as a sum of $k$-periodic quasi-polynomials ($1\\leq k\\leq N$) which he termed as Waves. It is now well-known that one can easily perform a wave decomposition using a special type of partial fraction decomposition (the so-called $q$-partial fractions) of the generating function of $p_{N}(n)$. In this paper we show that the coefficients of these $q$-partial fractions can be expressed as a linear combination of the Ramanujan sums. In particular, we show, for the first time, an appearance of the degenerate Bernoulli numbers, the degenerate Euler numbers and a special generalization of the Ramanujan sums, which we term as a Gaussian-Ramanujan sum, in the formulae for certain waves. These coefficients not only provide a good approximation of $p_{N}(n)$ but they can also be used for obtaining good bounds. Further, we provide a combinatorial meaning to these sums. Our approach for partial fractions is based on a projection operator on the $I$-adic completion of the ring of polynomials, where $I$ is an ideal generated by the Cyclotomic polynomial.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03603v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.03603v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"the-restricted-partition-and-q-partial","repo_url":"https://github.com/nudaykiran/restricted_partition","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}