Sunday, October 12, 2025

SF and NT Seminar - Jehanne Dousse (Geneva) - Thursday, October 16 , 2025 - 4:00 PM (IST)

 Dear all,



Abstract:

The Andrews-Gordon identities are among the most important q-series and partition identities, and generalise the famous Rogers-Ramanujan identities. Interestingly, while the product side of these identities clearly corresponds to partitions with congruence conditions, it is not obvious that the sum side of the q-series version is the generating function for the partitions with frequency conditions that appear in the combinatorial version. It was originally proved by George Andrews using recurrences, and then bijectively by Ole Warnaar using particle motion.

In this talk, we will explain and generalise the particle motion approach. We will show that the generalised version can be applied to the sum side of Bressoud's identity and that, using the Andrews-Gordon and Bressoud identities as starting points, it can prove many known and new identities.

This is based on joint work with Jihyeug Jang, Frédéric Jouhet and Isaac Konan.


Gaurav Bhatnagar, Atul Dixit, and Krishnan Rajkumar,
Special Functions and Number Theory Seminar

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