Our primary result concerns the positivity of specific kernels constructed using the q-ultraspherical polynomials. In other words, it concerns a two-parameter family of bivariate, compactly supported distributions. Moreover, this family has a property that all its conditional moments are polynomials in the conditioning random variable. The significance of this result is evident for individuals working on distribution theory, orthogonal polynomials, q-series theory, and the so-called quantum polynomials. Therefore, it may have a limited number of interested researchers. That is why, we put our results into a broader context. We recall the theory of Hilbert–Schmidt operators and the idea of Lancaster expansions (LEs) of the bivariate distributions absolutely continuous with respect to the product of their marginal distributions. Applications of LE can be found in Mathematical Statistics or the creation of Markov processes with polynomial conditional moments (the most well-known of these processes is the famous Wiener process).

Formulas evaluating differences of integer partitions according to the parity of the parts are referred to as Legendre theorems. In this paper we give some formulas of Legendre type for overpartitions.

In this note, we evaluate sums of partial theta functions. Our main tool is an application of an extended version of the Bailey transform to an identity of Gasper and Rahman on $q$-hypergeometric series.

Let $F_{n}$ and $L_{n}$ be the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers, respectively. Four corresponding zeta functions in $s$ are defined by

$$\begin{eqnarray}\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}_{F}(s):=\mathop{\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }{\displaystyle \frac{1}{F_{n}^{s}}},\quad \unicode[STIX]{x1D701}_{F}^{\ast }(s):=\mathop{\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }{\displaystyle \frac{(-1)^{n+1}}{F_{n}^{s}}},\quad \unicode[STIX]{x1D701}_{L}(s):=\mathop{\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }{\displaystyle \frac{1}{L_{n}^{s}}},\quad \unicode[STIX]{x1D701}_{L}^{\ast }(s):=\mathop{\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }{\displaystyle \frac{(-1)^{n+1}}{L_{n}^{s}}}.\end{eqnarray}$$

$R(\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}),Q(\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}),$

$P(\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C})$

$\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}$

$0<\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}<1$

$s$

$m$

$$\begin{eqnarray}\mathop{\sum }_{s=1}^{m}(t_{s}\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}_{F}(2s)+u_{s}\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}_{F}^{\ast }(2s)+v_{s}\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}_{L}(2s)+w_{s}\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}_{L}^{\ast }(2s))=0\end{eqnarray}$$

$t_{s},u_{s},v_{s},w_{s}\in \mathbb{Q}$

$(1\leq s\leq m)$

$\mathbb{Q}$

$m$

$-2\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}_{F}(2)+\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}_{F}^{\ast }(2)+5\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}_{L}^{\ast }(2)=0$

$2s$

We give the generating function of split $(n+t)$-colour partitions and obtain an analogue of Euler’s identity for split $n$-colour partitions. We derive a combinatorial relation between the number of restricted split $n$-colour partitions and the function $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}_{k}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})=\sum _{d|\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}}d^{k}$. We introduce a new class of split perfect partitions with $d(a)$ copies of each part $a$ and extend the work of Agarwal and Subbarao [‘Some properties of perfect partitions’, Indian J. Pure Appl. Math 22(9) (1991), 737–743].

We observe the frog model, an infinite system of interacting random walks, on ℤ with an asymmetric underlying random walk. For certain initial frog distributions we construct an explicit formula for the moments of the leftmost visited site, as well as their asymptotic scaling limits as the drift of the underlying random walk vanishes. We also provide conditions in which the lower bound can be scaled to converge in probability to the degenerate distribution at 1 as the drift vanishes.

We extend results of Andrews and Bressoud [‘Vanishing coefficients in infinite product expansions’, J. Aust. Math. Soc. Ser. A27(2) (1979), 199–202] on the vanishing of coefficients in the series expansions of certain infinite products. These results have the form that if

$$\begin{eqnarray}\frac{(q^{r-tk},q^{mk-(r-tk)};q^{mk})_{\infty }}{(\pm q^{r},\pm q^{mk-r};q^{mk})_{\infty }}=:\mathop{\sum }_{n=0}^{\infty }c_{n}q^{n}\end{eqnarray}$$

$k$

$m$

$s$

$t$

$r=sm+t$

$c_{kn-rs}$

In his last letter to Hardy, Ramanujan defined 17 functions $F\left( q \right),\,\left| q \right|\,<\,1$, which he called mock $\theta $-functions. He observed that as $q$ radially approaches any root of unity $\zeta $ at which $F\left( q \right)$ has an exponential singularity, there is a $\theta $-function ${{T}_{\zeta }}\left( q \right)$ with $F\left( q \right)\,-\,{{T}_{\zeta }}\left( q \right)\,=\,O\left( 1 \right)$. Since then, other functions have been found that possess this property. These functions are related to a function $H\left( x,\,q \right)$, where $x$ is usually ${{q}^{r}}$ or ${{e}^{2\pi ir}}$ for some rational number $r$. For this reason we refer to $H$ as a “universal” mock $\theta $-function. Modular transformations of $H$ give rise to the functions $K,\,{{K}_{1}},\,{{K}_{2}}$. The functions $K$ and ${{K}_{1}}$ appear in Ramanujan's lost notebook. We prove various linear relations between these functions using Appell–Lerch sums (also called generalized Lambert series). Some relations (mock theta “conjectures”) involving mock $\theta $-functions of even order and $H$ are listed.

In his last letter to Hardy, Ramanujan defined 17 functions $F\left( q \right)$, where $\left| q \right|<1$. He called them mock theta functions, because as $q$ radially approaches any point ${{e}^{2\pi ir}}\left( r\,\text{rational} \right)$, there is a theta function ${{F}_{r}}\left( q \right)$ with $F\left( q \right)-{{F}_{r}}\left( q \right)=O\left( 1 \right)$. In this paper we establish the relationship between two families of mock theta functions.

We present two infinite families of generalized Lambert series identities, and deduce several known identities from them. They include an identity due to M. Jackson, a corollary of Ramanujan's $_1\psi_1$-summation formula, and a recent identity of G. E. Andrews, R. P. Lewis and Z.-G. Liu.

We obtain lower estimates for the absolute values of linear forms of the values of generalized Heine series at non-zero points of an imaginary quadratic field $\mathbb{I}$, in particular of the values of $q$-exponential function. These estimates depend on the individual coefficients, not only on the maximum of their absolute values. The proof uses a variant of classical Siegel's method applied to a system of functional Poincaré-type equations and the connection between the solutions of these functional equations and the generalized Heine series.

The inverse absorption distribution is shown to be a q-Pascal analogue of the Kemp and Kemp (1991) q-binomial distribution. The probabilities for the direct absorption distribution are obtained via the inverse absorption probabilities and exact expressions for its first two factorial moments are derived using q-series transformations of its probability generating function. Alternative models for the distribution are given.

We discuss the $q$-exponential functions ${{e}_{q}},\,{{E}_{q}}$ for $q$ on the unit circle, especially their continuity in $q$, and analogues of the limit relation ${{\lim }_{q\to 1}}\,{{e}_{q}}\,((1-q)z)\,=\,{{e}^{z}}.$

Nous obtenons différentes identités de l'analyse combinatoire contenant des coefficients binomiaux de Gauss.

This paper provides explicit formulas for the Wall polynomials which arise in Wall's work on conjugacy classes in the unitary, symplectic and orthogonal groups. From these explicit formulas are easily derived six interesting limiting idetities incuding the two that arise in the Luszing-Macdonald Wall conjectures.