Franklin's argument proves an identity of Zagier

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Authors Robin Chapman

Publication date 30 November 2000

Published in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0009036, https://eudml.org/doc/120959, http://www.emis.de/journals/EJC/Volume_7/Abstracts/v7i1r54.html

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Franklin's involutionpartitions of integers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81)

Abstract: Recently Zagier proved a remarkable q-series identity. We show that this identity can also be proved by modifying Franklin's classical proof of Euler's pentagonal number theorem.

Review text

The following remarkable identity of D. Zagier (to appear in Topology) \[ \sum^\infty_{n= 0} [(q)_\infty- (q)_n]= (q)_\infty \sum^\infty_{k= 1}{q^k\over 1- q^k}+ \sum^\infty_{r= 1}(-1)^r [(3r- 1) q^{r(3r- 1)/2}+ 3rq^{r(3r+ 1)/2}] \] is proved by a slight modification of Franklin's well-known involution proof of Euler's pentagonal number theorem.

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