Combinatorial Proofs of an Identity from Ramanujan's Lost Notebook and its Variations

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2009-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/0910.5518v2

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Combinatorics

7 pages, 2 figures; Removed mistaken references to generalization; added references to existing work of Kim and Andrews/Warnaa

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We examine an identity originally stated in Ramanujan's ``lost notebook'' and first proven algebraically by Andrews and combinatorially by Kim. We give two independent combinatorial proofs and interpretations of this identity, which also extends an identity recently proven by Pak and Waarnar related to the product of partial theta functions: First, we give a direct combinatorial proof, using the involution principle, of a special case of the identity, and extend this into a direct combinatorial proof of the full identity as written. Second, we show that the identity can be rewritten, using minor algebraic manipulation, into an identity that can be proven with a direct bijection. We provide such a bijection using a generalization of a standard bijection from partition theory.

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