Conjecture on the unbounded coefficients of the companion series C(q)C(q)

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Let C(q)=n0c(n)qnC(q)=\sum_{n\geq 0}c(n)q^n be the companion series whose coefficients are denoted by c(n)c(n). Unboundedness conjecture.

lim supnc(n)=+,lim infnc(n)=.\limsup_{n\to\infty}c(n)=+\infty,\qquad \liminf_{n\to\infty}c(n)=-\infty.

The conjecture asserts that the coefficients of C(q)C(q) are unbounded in both the positive and negative directions. The paper gives numerical examples of coefficients outside {2,1,0,1,2}\{-2,-1,0,1,2\}, but no resolution is provided.

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Primary source

George E. Andrews and Mohamed El Bachraoui, “On a two-color partition series and its companions”, arXiv:2606.30208 (2026).

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