Rademacher's infinite partial fraction conjecture for partition generating functions
Rademacher's infinite partial fraction conjecture for partition generating functions
Let denote the number of partitions of into at most parts, and write
with partial-fraction coefficients defined by
Here is the Dedekind sum, is the forward difference operator, and is given by . Rademacher's conjecture. For all integers such that , , and , the limit exists and equals
evaluated at , where
and
The conjecture was open for nearly four decades, but the paper presents overwhelming evidence that these limits do not exist: the sequences oscillate and attain arbitrarily large positive and negative values. Thus the conjecture is almost certainly false.
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Primary source
Andrew V. Sills and Doron Zeilberger, “Rademacher's infinite partial fraction conjecture is (almost certainly) false”, arXiv:1110.4932 (2011).
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