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Asymptotics for the reciprocal and shifted quotient of the partition function

Number Theory 2024-12-04 v1 Symbolic Computation Combinatorics

Abstract

Let p(n)p(n) denote the partition function. In this paper our main goal is to derive an asymptotic expansion up to order NN (for any fixed positive integer NN) along with estimates for error bounds for the shifted quotient of the partition function, namely p(n+k)/p(n)p(n+k)/p(n) with kNk\in \mathbb{N}, which generalizes a result of Gomez, Males, and Rolen. In order to do so, we derive asymptotic expansions with error bounds for the shifted version p(n+k)p(n+k) and the multiplicative inverse 1/p(n)1/p(n), which is of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.2412.02257,
  title  = {Asymptotics for the reciprocal and shifted quotient of the partition function},
  author = {Koustav Banerjee and Peter Paule and Cristian-Silviu Radu and Carsten Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.02257},
  year   = {2024}
}