The Third Borwein conjecture at modulus five

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For a positive integer nn, define the finite qq-Pochhammer symbol (q;q)r:=∏j=1r(1−qj)(q;q)_r:=\prod_{j=1}^{r}(1-q^j) and

Sn(q):=(q;q)5n(q5;q5)n.S_n(q):=\frac{(q;q)_{5n}}{(q^5;q^5)_n}.

Third Borwein conjecture. The sign pattern of the coefficients in the expansion of Sn(q)S_n(q) is +−−−−+−−−−+−−−−⋯+----+----+----\cdots, with the convention that zero coefficients may be regarded as either sign. The source discusses an approach to this conjecture but does not establish the full assertion.

References

Primary source

Chen Wang and Christian Krattenthaler, “An asymptotic approach to Borwein-type sign pattern theorems”, arXiv:2201.12415 (2022).

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