On some polynomials and series of Bloch-Pólya type

DOI10.1090/PROC/13982MaRDI QIDQ4636737zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Berkovich, Ali Kemal Uncu

Publication date 20 April 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07504

zbMATH Keywords

\(q\)-binomial theorem\(q\)-series identitiespartition theoremspentagonal numbersBloch-Pólya type series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) (q)-calculus and related topics (05A30) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81)

Abstract: We will show that $(1-q)(1-q^2)dots(1-q^m)$ is a polynomial in $q$ with coefficients from $-1,0,1$ iff $m=1,2,3,$ or $5$ and explore some interesting consequences of this result. We find explicit formulas for the $q$-series coefficients of $(1-q^2)(1-q^3)(1-q^4)(1-q^5)dots$ and $(1-q^3)(1-q^4)(1-q^5)(1-q^6)dots$. In doing so, we extend certain observations made by Sudler in 1964. We also discuss the classification of the products $(1-q)(1-q^2)dots(1-q^m)$ and some related series with respect to their absolute largest coefficients.

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