Generalized truncated Jacobi triple product conjecture

Let RR and SS be positive integers with 1S<R1\leq S<R, let k>1k>\ell\geq1, and assume k4k\geq4. There exists an integer NN such that the theta series

(1)k1(j=k+1kj=+1)(1)jqRj(j+1)/2+Sj(qS,qRS,qR;qR)\frac{(-1)^{k-1}\left(\sum_{j=-k+1}^{k}-\sum_{j=-\ell+1}^{\ell}\right)(-1)^j q^{Rj(j+1)/2+Sj}}{(q^S,q^{R-S},q^R;q^R)_\infty}

has nonnegative coefficients for nNn\geq N. Generalized truncated Jacobi triple product conjecture. Under these conditions, the asserted eventual coefficientwise nonnegativity holds. This is proposed as a generalized truncated version of the Andrews–Merca–Guo–Zeng conjecture. The paper also gives an equivalent formulation in terms of the partition function PR,S(n)P_{R,S}(n), but does not prove the conjecture.

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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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