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Partitions with part difference conditions and Bressoud's conjecture

  • Sun Kim
  • , Ae Ja Yee
  • Ohio State University
  • Pennsylvania State University

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Abstract

By employing Andrews' generalization of Watson's q-analogue of Whipple's theorem, Bressoud obtained an analytic identity, which specializes to most of the well-known theorems on partitions with part congruence conditions and difference conditions including the Rogers-Ramanujan identities. This led him to define two partition functions A and B depending on multiple parameters as combinatorial counterparts of his identity. Bressoud then proved that A = B for some very restricted choice of parameters and conjectured the equality to hold in full generality. We provide a proof of the conjecture for a much larger class of parameters, settling many cases of Bressoud's conjecture.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)35-69
Number of pages35
JournalJournal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A
Volume126
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014.08

Keywords

  • Gordon-Andrews generalizations
  • Part difference conditions
  • Rogers-Ramanujan identities

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