This analysis reveals multiple congruences for partition diamonds, indicating deep numerical patterns.
Recently, Andrews and Paule introduced a partition function $PDN1(N)$ which denotes the number of partition diamonds with $(n+1)$ copies of n where summing the parts at the links gives N. They also presented the generating function for $PDN1(n)$ and proved several congruences modulo 5,7,25,49 for $PDN1(n)$. At the end of their paper, Andrews and Paule asked for determining infinite families of congruences similar to Ramanujan's classical p(5ᵏn +dₖ) ≡ 0 5ᵏ, where 24dₖ≡ 1 5ᵏ and k≥ 1. In this paper, we give an answer of Andrews and Paule's open problem by proving three congruences modulo arbitrary powers of $5$ for $PDN1(n)$. In addition, we prove two congruences modulo arbitrary powers of $7$ for $PDN1(n)$, which are analogous to Watson's congruences for $p(n)$.
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