Linked partition ideals and Euclidean billiard partitions

DOI10.1007/S13398-023-01467-XMaRDI QIDQ6100730zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shane Chern

Publication date 22 June 2023

Published in Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Serie A: Matemáticas. RACSAM (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14485

zbMATH Keywords

\(q\)-difference equationsadjacent partsEuclidean billiard partitionsgenerating functionslinked partition ideals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Partition identities; identities of Rogers-Ramanujan type (11P84)

Abstract: Euclidean billiard partitions were recently introduced by Andrews, Dragovic and Radnovic in their study of periodic trajectories of ellipsoidal billiards in the Euclidean space. They are integer partitions into distinct parts such that (E1) adjacent parts are never both odd; (E2) the smallest part is even. By refining the framework of linked partition ideals, we establish a couple of relevant trivariate generating function identities, from which the result of Andrews, Dragovic and Radnovic follows as an immediate consequence.

Review text

This paper considers recently introduced Euclidean billiard partitions, that arose in the study of integrable billiards in Euclidean spaces of arbitrary dimensions and represent the winding numbers for each elliptic coordinate corresponding to periodic trajectories. Such partitions have distinct parts such that the adjacent ones are never both odd and the smallest part is even. This work uses linked partition ideals to establish several relevant trivariate generating function identities, which then enable a new way of obtaining the generating functions for the billiard partitions.

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