New recurrences for Euler's partition function

Authors: MIRCEA MERCA

Abstract: In this paper, the author invokes some consequences of the bisectional pentagonal number theorem to derive two linear recurrence relations for Euler's partition function $p(n)$. As a corollary of these results, we obtain an efficient method to compute the parity of Euler's partition function $p(n)$ that requires only the parity of $p(k)$ with $k \leq n/4$.

Keywords: Partition function, pentagonal number theorem, recurrence relation,

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