Identities and congruences for the general partition and Ramanujan’s tau functions

摘要

We present some identities and congruences for the general partition function p r (n). In particular, we deduce some known identities for Ramanujan’s tau function and find simple proofs of Ramanujan’s famous partition congruences for modulo 5 and 7. Our emphasis throughout this paper is to exhibit the use of Ramanujan’s theta functions to generate identities and congruences for general partition function.