Positive alternating sums of integer partitions

DOI10.1007/S11139-020-00264-ZMaRDI QIDQ2039002zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mohamed El Bachraoui

Publication date 7 July 2021

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02543

zbMATH Keywords

Bailey transformoverpartitionspartitionspositivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Basic hypergeometric functions in one variable, ({}_rphi_s) (33D15)

Abstract: We combine an extended version of Bailey's transform with an identity of Bressoud and with some identities of Berkovich and Warnaar to prove a variety of positivity results for alternating sums involving partition functions.

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