Andrews–Merca and Guo–Zeng's truncated Jacobi triple product conjecture

About 2 years old · traced to

Let ℓ\ell, RR and SS be positive integers with 1≤S<R/21\leq S<R/2, and let (a;q)∞(a;q)_\infty denote the qq-Pochhammer symbol. Andrews–Merca and Guo–Zeng's conjecture. The coefficient of qnq^n, for n≥1n\geq1, in

(−1)ℓ−1∑j=0ℓ−1(−1)jqRj(j+1)/2−Sj(1−q(2j+1)S)(qS,qR−S,qR;qR)∞(-1)^{\ell-1}\frac{\sum_{j=0}^{\ell-1}(-1)^j q^{Rj(j+1)/2-Sj}\left(1-q^{(2j+1)S}\right)}{(q^S,q^{R-S},q^R;q^R)_\infty}

is nonnegative. The conjecture was proved analytically by Mao and combinatorially by Yee, so its status is settled.

References

Primary source

Xiangyu Ding and Lisa Hui Sun, “Truncated theta series from the Bailey lattice”, arXiv:2403.11608 (2025).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.