Schlosser's sign-pattern conjecture for powers of the infinite Borwein product

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Let G3(q)G_{3}(q) be the infinite Borwein product

G3(q)=(q;q)∞(q3;q3)∞.G_{3}(q)=\frac{(q;q)_{\infty}}{(q^{3};q^{3})_{\infty}}.

Suppose that G3(q)δG_{3}(q)^{\delta} has the dissection

G3(q)δ=Aδ(q3)−qBδ(q3)−q2Cδ(q3).G_{3}(q)^{\delta}=A^{\delta}(q^{3})-qB^{\delta}(q^{3})-q^{2}C^{\delta}(q^{3}).

Schlosser's conjecture. If δ\delta is real and

0.227998127341⋯≈9−732≤δ≤1or2≤δ≤3,0.227998127341\cdots\approx\frac{9-\sqrt{73}}{2}\leq\delta\leq1\quad\text{or}\quad2\leq\delta\leq3,

then Aδ(q)A^{\delta}(q), Bδ(q)B^{\delta}(q), and Cδ(q)C^{\delta}(q) are power series in qq with non-negative real coefficients. This extends known sign-regularity phenomena for coefficients of infinite products and their powers; the statement is presented as a conjecture, and no resolution is supplied in the source.

References

Primary source

Bing He and Linpei Li, “Some conjectures of Schlosser and Zhou on sign patterns of the coefficients of infinite products”, arXiv:2509.10023 (2025).

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