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Positivity and tails of pentagonal number series

Combinatorics 2024-07-02 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we refine a result of Andrews and Merca on truncated pentagonal number series. Subsequently, we establish some positivity results involving Andrews--Gordon--Bressoud identities and dd-regular partitions. In particular, we prove several conjectures of Merca and Krattenthaler--Merca--Radu on truncated pentagonal number series.

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@article{arxiv.2403.06196,
  title  = {Positivity and tails of pentagonal number series},
  author = {Nian Hong Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06196},
  year   = {2024}
}