Aspects combinatorics of identities Rogers-Ramanujan type

Author(s)

Andreia Cristina Ribeiro

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica
• Defense date: 2006-11-24

Examining board members

José Plínio de Oliveira Santos; HemarTeixiera Godinho; Vilmar Trevisan; Marcelo Muniz Silva Alves; Sueli Irene Rodrigues Costa

• Advisor: José Plínio de Oliveira Santos

Abstract

In this work many of the identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan type given by Slater are considered. In 1985, Andrews, introduced a general method in other to extend to two variables identities of this type in order to get, as special cases, some important functions of Ramanujan. Santos, in 1991, gave conjectures for many of the family of polynomials that appears in those extensions providing the proofs for some of them. Sills, in his Ph.D. thesis in 2002 ,has implemented procedures allowing the proofs of the conjectures given by Santos. In the present work, in a form different from the one given by Andrews, parameters are introduced in the sums of the identities in such a way to get, in each case, generating functions giving combinatorial interpretations for partitions where ¿numbers¿are represented as ¿vectors¿and that can give, as special cases, combinatorial interpretations for many of the identities given by Slater (AU)