[seqfan] Re: A033791
Frank Adams-Watters
franktaw at netscape.net
Wed Oct 15 23:58:53 CEST 2014
It would be easier to answer this question if you told us what your
proposed sequence is.
Franklin T. Adams-Watters
-----Original Message-----
From: David Newman <davidsnewman at gmail.com>
To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
Sent: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 4:52 pm
Subject: [seqfan] Re: A033791
The sequence that I'm working with will agree with A033791 for n<64, but
will be different thereafter. Should I propose it as new sequence or
as a
comment on A033791.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Andrew N W Hone
<A.N.W.Hone at kent.ac.uk>
wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I am not looking at the sequence just now but I guess theta_2 is a
theta
> function in Jacobi's classical notation: see
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta_function
>
> under "auxiliary functions". In the combinatorial setting, counting
> partitions, you want to set the first argument z=0, which gives the
q-series
>
> \sum q^{(n+1/2)^2}
>
> where the sum is from n=-infinity to +infinity.
>
> A good classical reference is A Course of Modern Analysis by
Whittaker &
> Watson. The first volume of Mumford's Tata Lectures on Theta is also
great,
> and has a more modern point of view.
>
> All the best,
> Andy
>
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> Subject: [seqfan] A033791
>
> I have a partition type sequence which matches A033791 for the first
40
> terms. However, beyond the computational evidence I have no reason to
> think that the two are the same. In fact, I'm guessing that they
differ
> for n>63. I am hampered in my efforts in part because I don't know
which
> function is meant by theta2. Could someone give me the definition of
> theta2 or point me to a source for the definition?
>
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