On a conjecture of Krammer (Q2640600)

Daan Krammer made the following conjecture: \[ 1+2\sum^{\lfloor n/2\rfloor}_{k=1} {{2k-1}\brack k}_ q(-1)^ kq^{-k(k-1)/2}=\begin{cases} (n/5)&\text{ if } 5\nmid n \\ 1+4 \cos(2\pi/5) &\text{ if } 5| n,\end{cases} \] \[ \text{where } q=e^{2\pi i/n},\;(n/5)=\begin{cases} 1 &\text{ if \(n\equiv 1\) or \(4 \bmod 5\)} \\ -1 &\text{ if \(n\equiv 2\) or \(3 \bmod 5\)}\end{cases} , \] \(\lfloor x\rfloor\) denotes the greatest integer function and \({n\brack k}_ q\) is the Gaussian \(q\)-binomial coefficient. Krammer was led to his conjecture through manipulation and evaluation of series related to Rogers-Ramanujan identities. In this note it is shown that this conjecture follows from the finite form of one of the Rogers-Ramanujan identities.