Asymptotics for the twisted eta-product and applications to sign changes in partitions (Q2079532)

In this paper, the authors study the distribution of ordinary partitions whose number of parts are congruent to some residue class \(a\) modulo \(b\). The number of such partitions of \(n\) is denoted by \(p(a,b,n)\). In this context, the authors proved the following result: as \(n\to\infty\) the differences \(p(a_1,b,n)-p(a_2,b,n)\) with \(a_1\neq a_2\) oscillates like a cosine when renormalized by elementary functions.