A probabilistic approach to some of Euler’s number theoretic identities

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-98-01969-2zbMath0902.60092MaRDI QIDQ4211084

Don Rawlings

Publication date: 10 September 1998

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Bernoulli trials; \(q\)-binomial theorem; \(q\)-Riemann zeta function; \(q\)-derangement problem; \(q\)-Poisson distribution; \(q\)-Euler phi function; Euler's partition identities; Euler's process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

05A30: (q)-calculus and related topics

05A17: Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers

60K99: Special processes

11P81: Elementary theory of partitions

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Absorption processes: Models for \(q\)-identities, A generalized Mahonian statistic on absorption ring mappings, Elementary divisors and determinants of random matrices over a local field.

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