On $\ell-$regular and $2-$color partition triples modulo powers of $3$

Abstract

Let $T_\ell(n)$ denote the number of $\ell-$regular partition triples of $n$ and let $p_{\ell, 3}(n)$ enumerates the number of 2--color partition triples of $n$ where one of the colors appear only in parts that are multiples of $\ell$. In this paper, we prove several infinite families of congruences modulo powers of 3 for $T_\ell(n)$ and $p_{\ell, 3}(n)$, where $\ell \geq 1$ and $\equiv 0\pmod{3^k}$, and $\equiv \pm 3^k \pmod{3^{k+1}}$.