Disproof of a conjecture by Rademacher on partial fractions

DOI10.1090/S2330-1511-2014-00014-6zbMATH Open1339.11087arXiv1312.4289OpenAlexW2964063251WikidataQ123007333 ScholiaQ123007333MaRDI QIDQ2814367FDOQ2814367

Authors: Michael Drmota, Stefan Gerhold 

Publication date: 21 June 2016

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In his book Topics in Analytic Number Theory, Rademacher considered the generating function of partitions into at most $N$ parts, and conjectured certain limits for the coefficients of its partial fraction decomposition. We carry out an asymptotic analysis that disproves this conjecture, thus confirming recent observations of Sills and Zeilberger (Journal of Difference Equations and Applications 19, 2013), who gave strong numerical evidence against the conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4289

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zbMATH Keywords

Mellin transformpolylogarithminteger partitionspartial fraction decompositionsaddle point asymptotics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Analytic theory of partitions (11P82)

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