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.References
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Additional Information
- Jehanne Dousse
- Affiliation: Institut für Mathematik, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
- MR Author ID: 1036858
- ORCID: 0000-0001-6825-0389
- Email: jehanne.dousse@math.uzh.ch
- Jeremy Lovejoy
- Affiliation: CNRS, Université Denis Diderot – Paris 7, Case 7014, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
- MR Author ID: 671259
- Email: lovejoy@math.cnrs.fr
- Received by editor(s): December 21, 2016
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: February 9, 2017, February 13, 2017, and February 14, 2017
- Published electronically: July 27, 2017
- Additional Notes: The first author was supported by the Forschungskredit of the University of Zurich, grant No. FK-16-098
The authors thank the University of Zurich and the French-Swiss collaboration project No. 2015-09 for funding research visits during which this research was conducted - Communicated by: Ken Ono
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- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 146 (2018), 55-67
- MSC (2010): Primary 05A17, 11P81, 11P84
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13694
- MathSciNet review: 3723120