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Analysis and combinatorics of partition zeta functions

Number Theory 2021-05-12 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We examine "partition zeta functions" analogous to the Riemann zeta function but summed over subsets of integer partitions. We prove an explicit formula for a family of partition zeta functions already shown to have nice properties -- those summed over partitions of fixed length -- which yields complete information about analytic continuation, poles and trivial roots of the zeta functions in the family. Then we present a combinatorial proof of the explicit formula, which shows it to be a zeta function analog of MacMahon's partial fraction decomposition of the generating function for partitions of fixed length.

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@article{arxiv.1907.12465,
  title  = {Analysis and combinatorics of partition zeta functions},
  author = {Robert Schneider and Andrew V. Sills},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.12465},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8 pages, submitted for publication

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