On a Rogers-Ramanujan type identity from crystal base theory

Dousse, Jehanne; Lovejoy, Jeremy

doi:10.1090/proc/13694

On a Rogers-Ramanujan type identity from crystal base theory
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Abstract:

We refine and generalise a Rogers-Ramanujan type partition identity arising from crystal base theory. Our proof uses the variant of the method of weighted words recently introduced by the first author.

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