Lecture hall partitions. II (Q1127609)

The authors generalize the familiar lecture hall partitions to the partitions \((\lambda_1, \dots, \lambda_n)\) satisfying \(0\leq \lambda_1/a_1 \leq\cdots \leq\lambda_n/ a_n\), where \(a_1, \dots, a_n\) is a nondecreasing integer sequence. A series of identities is obtained, one of which is: the number of partitions of an integer \(m\) such that the quotient between consecutive parts is greater than \(\theta\) is equal to the number of partitions of \(m\) into parts belonging to a set \(P_\theta\), for certain real numbers \(\theta\) and integer sets \(P_\theta\). Connections are found to Ehrhart's theory on the enumeration of integer points lying in the integer multiples of a rational convex polytope of \(\mathbb{R}^n\).