Rademacher's infinite partial fraction conjecture is (almost certainly) false

Details Rademacher's infinite partial fraction conjecture is (almost certainly) false Rademacher's infinite partial fraction conjecture is (almost certainly) false

2011-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/1110.4932v1

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Number Theory

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In his book \emph{Topics in Analytic Number Theory}, Hans Rademacher conjectured that the limits of certain sequences of coefficients that arise in the ordinary partial fraction decomposition of the generating function for partitions of integers into at most $N$ parts exist and equal particular values that he specified. Despite being open for nearly four decades, little progress has been made toward proving or disproving the conjecture, perhaps in part due to the difficulty in actually computing the coefficients in question. In this paper, we provide a fast algorithm for calculating the Rademacher coefficients, a large amount of data, direct formulas for certain collections of Rademacher coefficients, and overwhelming evidence against the truth of the conjecture. While the limits of the sequences of Rademacher coefficients do not exist (the sequences oscillate and attain arbitrarily large positive and negative values), the sequences do get very close to Rademacher's conjectured limits for certain (predictable) indices in the sequences.

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