A note on the rank parity function

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2009.10.001MaRDI QIDQ965981zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander E. Patkowski

Publication date 27 April 2010

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2009.10.001

zbMATH Keywords

indefinite quadratic formspartitionsq-series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81)

Review text

The rank of a partition is defined as the largest part minus the number of parts. Let \(S(n)\) denote the number of partitions into distinct parts with even rank minus those with odd rank. In the paper under review the author proves the following identity for positive even integers \(n\): \[ S\left(\frac{n}{2}\right)=\sum_{\substack{ r\geq 0,\, |j|\leq r, \\ 24n+2=3(4r+1)^2-(6j+1)^2 }} (-1)^{r+j}-\sum_{\substack{ r\geq 0,\, |j|\leq r, \\ 24n+2=3(4r+3)^2-(6j+1)^2 }} (-1)^{r+j}. \] The author also establishes some results for the q-series related with the generating functions of \(S_E(n)\) and \(S_O(n)\), where \(S_E(n)\) (resp. \(S_O(n)\)) is the number of partitions of \(n\) into distinct parts with even rank minus the number of them with odd rank where the number of parts is even (resp. odd). The proofs of these results are achieved using two new Bailey pairs.

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