Qin's punctual-partition generating-function conjecture

Let r2r\ge2, and let Pr(n)P_r(n) and P~r(n)\widetilde P_r(n) denote the two partition-counting functions defined earlier in the paper. Qin's punctual-partition generating-function conjecture. One has

n=0+P~r(n)qnn=0+Pr(n)qn=1(1q)r2.\frac{\sum_{n=0}^{+\infty}\widetilde P_r(n)q^n}{\sum_{n=0}^{+\infty}P_r(n)q^n}=\frac{1}{(1-q)^{r-2}}.

The preceding theorem gives the Euler-number generating series for the relevant moduli spaces in terms of this quotient, so the conjecture would provide an explicit simplification; its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Wei-Ping Li and Zhenbo Qin, “On the Euler numbers of certain moduli spaces of curves and points”, arXiv:math/0508132 (2005).

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