Multimodal sequences and their generating functions
Number Theory
2025-06-25 v3 Combinatorics
Abstract
We define integer multimodal sequences, which are generalizations of unimodal sequences having multiple local peaks of equal size. The generating functions for multimodal sequences represent novel types of -series that combine generating functions for both integer partitions and integer compositions. We prove a bijection between multimodal sequences of equal size (sum), and show that multimodal generating functions become finite series at roots of unity like the ``strange'' function of Kontsevich, quantum modular forms, and other examples of this phenomenon in the -series literature.
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@article{arxiv.2310.02796,
title = {Multimodal sequences and their generating functions},
author = {Philip Cuthbertson and Robert Schneider},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.02796},
year = {2025}
}
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