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Vanishing coefficients in infinite product expansions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

George E. Andrews
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park Pennsylvania 16802, U.S.A.
David M. Bressoud
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park Pennsylvania 16802, U.S.A.
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Abstract

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Richmond and Szekeres (1977) have conjecturned that certain of the coefficients in the power series expansions of certain infinite products vanish. In this paper, we prove a general family of results of this nature which includes the above conjectures.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1979

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