A new property of partitions with applications to the Rogers-Ramanujan identities

DOI10.1016/0097-3165(71)90031-8MaRDI QIDQ2545535zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George E. Andrews

Publication date 1971

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0097-3165(71)90031-8

zbMATH Keywords

generating function for partitions of order \(n\)identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary theory of partitions (11P81) Partition identities; identities of Rogers-Ramanujan type (11P84)

Review text

The order of a partition \(\pi\) (relative to \(N\)) is defined as the largest \(i\) for which the number of summands of \(\pi\) in the closed interval \([i, i+N-1]\) is at least \(i\). It is shown here that the generating function for partitions of order \(n\) with distinct parts each not exceeding \(2N\) is \[ (-xq;q)_{n-1}x^nq^{n(3n-1)/2}{N\brack n}(1+xq^{2n})(-xq^{n+N+1};q)_{n-n}, \] where \((aq;q)_n=(1-a)(1-aq)\dots(1-aq^{n-1}\), and \({N\brack n}=(q)_N/(q)_n(q)_{N-n}\). This result is used to prove an identity of importance in the study of identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan type.

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