The Rogers-Ramanujan identities without Jacobi's triple product

DOI10.1216/RMJ-1987-17-4-659MaRDI QIDQ1107531zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George E. Andrews

Publication date 1987

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1216/rmj-1987-17-4-659

zbMATH Keywords

finite rational function identitypartitionsRogers-Ramanujan identities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81) Partition identities; identities of Rogers-Ramanujan type (11P84)

Review text

The first bijective proof of the Rogers-Ramanujan identities was given in 1981 by \textit{A. M. Garsia} and \textit{S. C. Milne} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 31, 289--339 (1981; Zbl 0477.05009)]. Subsequently another bijective proof was given by \textit{D. M. Bressoud} and \textit{D. Zeilberger} [Discrete Math. 38, 313--315 (1982; Zbl 0476.05010)]. Both of these proofs use an involution principle and Jacobi's triple product identity. The author here presents a proof which avoids the use of the Jacobi identity, instead making use of a finite rational function identity which converges to Jacobi's triple product in the limit.

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