International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2004 (2004), Issue 47, Pages 2495-2501
doi:10.1155/S0161171204401380
A Combinatorial proof of a partition identity of Andrews and Stanley
Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Piscataway 08854-8019, NJ, USA
Received 26 January 2004; Revised 5 February 2004
Copyright © 2004 Andrew V. Sills. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
In his paper, “On a partition function of Richard Stanley,” George Andrews
proves a certain partition identity analytically and asks for a
combinatorial proof.This paper provides the requested
combinatorial proof.