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A general positivity result on coefficients of certain $q$-series

Number Theory 2024-12-03 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

Based on a classical result on partitions of an integer into a finite set of positive integers, we establish a general positivity result on coefficients of certain qq-series which uniformly refines the positivity of truncated pentagonal number series, truncated Gauss' identities and some special cases of truncated Jacobi triple product identity. As an application, we prove two positivity conjectures due to Merca.

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@article{arxiv.2409.19907,
  title  = {A general positivity result on coefficients of certain $q$-series},
  author = {Ji-Cai Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.19907},
  year   = {2024}
}

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