Disproof of a conjecture by Rademacher on partial fractions

DOI10.1090/S2330-1511-2014-00014-6MaRDI QIDQ2814367zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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