Congruences for Restricted Plane Overpartitions Modulo 4 and 8

Abstract: In 2009, Corteel, Savelief and Vuleti\'c generalized the concept of overpartitions to a new object called plane overpartitions. In recent work, the author considered a restricted form of plane overpartitions called $k$-rowed plane overpartions and proved a method to obtain congruences for these and other types of combinatorial generating functions. In this paper, we prove several restricted and unrestricted plane overpartition congruences modulo $4$ and $8$ using other techniques.