Constant terms, jagged partitions, and partitions with difference two at distance two (Q866801)

Following \textit{J.-F. Fortin}, \textit{P. Jacob} and \textit{P. Mathieu} [Ramanujan J. 10, No. 2, 215--235 (2005; Zbl 1079.05003); Electron. J. Comb. 12, No. 1, Research paper R12, 17 p., electronic only (2005; Zbl 1062.05011); J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 38, No. 8, 1699--1709 (2005; Zbl 1061.81068)], a jagged partition refers to an ordered collection of nonnegative integers \((n_1,n_2,\dots, n_n)\) with \(n_n\geq p\) for some positive integer \(p\), further subject to some weakly decreasing conditions that prevent it from being a genuine partition. The prototypical example, which first arose in the study of graded parafermions in mathematical physics, is the 01-jagged partition, corresponding to \(p=1\) and the conditions \(n_i\geq n_{i+1}-1\) and \(n_i\geq n_{i+2}\). In the paper under review the author establishes a group of constant term identities that contain generating functions for jagged partitions and interprets these identities as theorems about partitions with difference \(\geq 2\) at distance 2.