" Andrews'
Style Partition Theorems"
By
Abstract: The first of the famous
Rogers-Ramanujan identities states that the number of
partitions of a positive integer n into distinct non-consecutive parts equals
the number of partitions of n into parts that are 1 or 4 mod 5. Gordon later
extended this theorem for partitions into repeated parts with some limit on the number
of occurrences. There have been many generalizations since then. We will
describe a unified method of proving Rogers-Ramanujan-Gordon
generalizations. Our starting point is Andrews' recent paper "Parity in
Partitions" and we will work with larger moduli. As time allows, we
will show how to apply the method in some results involving overpartitions.
Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Time: 15.40 – 16:30
Place: Mathematics Seminar Room,
SA-141
Tea and cookies will be served after the
seminar.