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Arc Spaces and Rogers-Ramanujan Identities

Algebraic Geometry 2011-02-08 v2 Commutative Algebra Combinatorics

Abstract

Arc spaces have been introduced in algebraic geometry as a tool to study singularities but they show strong connections with combinatorics as well. Exploiting these relations we obtain a new approach to the classical Rogers-Ramanujan Identities. The linking object is the Hilbert-Poincar\'e series of the arc space over a point of the base variety. In the case of the double point this is precisely the generating series for the integer partitions without equal or consecutive parts.

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@article{arxiv.1101.4950,
  title  = {Arc Spaces and Rogers-Ramanujan Identities},
  author = {Clemens Bruschek and Hussein Mourtada and Jan Schepers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.4950},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

23 pages, introduction rewritten and inaccuracies corrected

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