Andrews–Merca–Guo–Zeng conjecture on truncated Jacobi triple product coefficients

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Let kk, RR, and SS be positive integers with 1≤S<R/21\leq S<R/2. For n≥1n\geq1, consider the coefficient of qnq^n in

(−1)k−1∑j=0k−1(−1)jqRj(j+1)/2−Sj(1−q(2j+1)S)(qS,qR−S,qR;qR)∞.(-1)^{k-1}\frac{\sum_{j=0}^{k-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}.

Andrews–Merca–Guo–Zeng conjecture. This coefficient is nonnegative. This conjecture is solved: it was proved analytically by Mao and combinatorially by Yee in 2015, and later reproved by Wang and Yee using Bailey-pair methods.

References

Primary source

Xiangyu Ding and Lisa Hui Sun, “Proof of Merca's stronger conjecture on truncated Jacobi triple product series”, arXiv:2411.13818 (2025).

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