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The Andrews-Stanley partition function and Al-Salam-Chihara polynomials

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

We show that the sum of the four parameter weights over all ordinary or strict partitions with parts each less than or equal to a given integer NN is expressed by the Al-Salam Chihara polynomials. This weight is a generalization of the Andrews-Stanley partition function. As a corollary we prove C. Boulet's results when the sum runs over all ordinary or strict partitions. In the last section we study the weighted sum of Schur's PP-functions and QQ-functions, where the sum runs over all strict partitions.

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@article{arxiv.math/0506128,
  title  = {The Andrews-Stanley partition function and Al-Salam-Chihara polynomials},
  author = {Masao Ishikawa and Jiang Zeng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0506128},
  year   = {2007}
}

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25 pages