On a conjecture of Andrews and Bachraoui
Number Theory
2026-01-08 v1
Abstract
Recently, Andrews and Bachraoui considered a generating function associated with certain two-color partitions, and conjectured that this function has non-negative coefficients for . They showed this property for . In this note, we prove that has non-negative coefficients for . Moreover, we show that, as , is related to Ramanujan's third order mock theta function and to quotients of certain -binomial coefficients.
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@article{arxiv.2601.04014,
title = {On a conjecture of Andrews and Bachraoui},
author = {Koustav Banerjee and Kathrin Bringmann and William J. Keith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.04014},
year = {2026}
}