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Partition-theoretic formulas for arithmetic densities, II

Number Theory 2021-04-07 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

In earlier work generalizing a 1977 theorem of Alladi, the authors proved a partition-theoretic formula to compute arithmetic densities of certain subsets of the positive integers N\mathbb N as limiting values of qq-series as qζq\to \zeta a root of unity (instead of using the usual Dirichlet series to compute densities), replacing multiplicative structures of N\mathbb N by analogous structures in the integer partitions P\mathcal P. In recent work, Wang obtains a wide generalization of Alladi's original theorem, in which arithmetic densities of subsets of prime numbers are computed as values of Dirichlet series arising from Dirichlet convolutions. Here the authors prove that Wang's extension has a partition-theoretic analogue as well, yielding new qq-series density formulas for any subset of N\mathbb N. To do so, we outline a theory of qq-series density calculations from first principles, based on a statistic we call the "qq-density" of a given subset. This theory in turn yields infinite families of further formulas for arithmetic densities.

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@article{arxiv.2010.15107,
  title  = {Partition-theoretic formulas for arithmetic densities, II},
  author = {Ken Ono and Robert Schneider and Ian Wagner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15107},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

17 pages, to appear in the special issue of the Hardy-Ramanujan Journal commemorating the 100th anniversary of Ramanujan's death

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