Saikia's parity and 2-adic congruence conjecture for overpartition prime-tuples

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Let pq(n)\overline{p}_{q}(n) denote the number of overpartition qq-tuples of nn, where qq is prime. Saikia's conjecture. For all n0n\geq 0 and primes qq,

pq(8n+1)0(mod2),pq(8n+2)0(mod4),pq(8n+3)0(mod8),pq(8n+4)0(mod2),pq(8n+5)0(mod8),pq(8n+6)0(mod8),pq(8n+7)0(mod32).\begin{aligned} \overline{p}_{q}(8n+1)&\equiv 0 \pmod{2},\\ \overline{p}_{q}(8n+2)&\equiv 0 \pmod{4},\\ \overline{p}_{q}(8n+3)&\equiv 0 \pmod{8},\\ \overline{p}_{q}(8n+4)&\equiv 0 \pmod{2},\\ \overline{p}_{q}(8n+5)&\equiv 0 \pmod{8},\\ \overline{p}_{q}(8n+6)&\equiv 0 \pmod{8},\\ \overline{p}_{q}(8n+7)&\equiv 0 \pmod{32}. \end{aligned}

These congruences extend known arithmetic properties of overpartition tuples and were proposed by Saikia; their general validity remains open.

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Primary source

G. Kavya Keerthana, S. Ananya and Ranganatha D, “Congruences modulo powers of 2 and 3 for overpartition k-tuples”, arXiv:2509.17705 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2307.01272.

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