Q Series Their Development And Application In Analysis Number Theory Combinatorics Physics And Computer Algebra

Integrates developments and related applications in $q$-series with a historical development of the field. This book develops important analytic topics (Bailey chains, integrals, and constant terms) and applications to additive number theory.

The subject of $q$-series can be said to begin with Euler and his pentagonal number theorem. In fact, $q$-series are sometimes called Eulerian series. Contributions were made by Gauss, Jacobi, and Cauchy, but the first attempt at a systematic development, especially from the point of view of studying series with the products in the summands, was made by E. Heine in 1847. In the latter part of the nineteenth and in the early part of the twentieth centuries, two Englishmathematicians, L. J. Rogers and F. H. Jackson, made fundamental contributions. In 1940, G. H. Hardy described what we now call Ramanujan's famous $ 1\psi 1$ summation theorem as ``a remarkable formula with many parameters.'' This is now one of the fundamental theorems of the subject. Despite humble beginnings,the subject of $q$-series has flourished in the past three decades, particularly with its applications to combinatorics, number theory, and physics. During the year 2000, the University of Illinois embraced The Millennial Year in Number Theory. One of the events that year was the conference $q$-Series with Applications to Combinatorics, Number Theory, and Physics. This event gathered mathematicians from the world over to lecture and discuss their research. This volume presents nineteen of thepapers presented at the conference. The excellent lectures that are included chart pathways into the future and survey the numerous applications of $q$-series to combinatorics, number theory, and physics.

Gathered from the 2016 Gainesville Number Theory Conference honoring Krishna Alladi on his 60th birthday, these proceedings present recent research in number theory. Extensive and detailed, this volume features 40 articles by leading researchers on topics in analytic number theory, probabilistic number theory, irrationality and transcendence, Diophantine analysis, partitions, basic hypergeometric series, and modular forms. Readers will also find detailed discussions of several aspects of the path-breaking work of Srinivasa Ramanujan and its influence on current research. Many of the papers were motivated by Alladi's own research on partitions and q-series as well as his earlier work in number theory. Alladi is well known for his contributions in number theory and mathematics. His research interests include combinatorics, discrete mathematics, sieve methods, probabilistic and analytic number theory, Diophantine approximations, partitions and q-series identities. Graduate students and researchers will find this volume a valuable resource on new developments in various aspects of number theory.

Proceedings of a high-level conference on discrete mathematics, focusing on group actions in the areas of pure mathematics, applied mathematics, computer science, physics, and chemistry. A useful tool for researchers and graduate students in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science.

This volume contains lectures presented by Hugh L. Montgomery at the NSF-CBMS Regional Conference held at Kansas State University in May 1990. The book focuses on important topics in analytic number theory that involve ideas from harmonic analysis. One particularly valuable aspect of the book is that it collects material that was either unpublished or that had appeared only in the research literature. The book should be a useful resource for harmonic analysts interested in moving into research in analytic number theory. In addition, it is suitable as a textbook in an advanced graduate topics course in number theory.

This volume aims to highlight trends and important directions of research in orthogonal polynomials, q-series, and related topics in number theory, combinatorics, approximation theory, mathematical physics, and computational and applied harmonic analysis. This collection is based on the invited lectures by well-known contributors from the International Conference on Orthogonal Polynomials and q-Series, that was held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, on May 10–12, 2015. The conference was dedicated to Professor Mourad Ismail on his 70th birthday. The editors strived for a volume that would inspire young researchers and provide a wealth of information in an engaging format. Theoretical, combinatorial and computational/algorithmic aspects are considered, and each chapter contains many references on its topic, when appropriate. Contents: Mourad Ismail (Richard Askey)Binomial Andrews–Gordon–Bressoud Identities (Dennis Stanton)Symmetric Expansions of Very Well-Poised Basic Hypergeometric Series (George E Andrews)A Sturm–Liouville Theory for Hahn Difference Operator (M H Annaby, A E Hamza and S D Makharesh)Solvability of the Hankel Determinant Problem for Real Sequences (Andrew Bakan and Christian Berg)Convolution and Product Theorems for the Special Affine Fourier Transform (Ayush Bhandari and Ahmed I Zayed)A Further Look at Time-and-Band Limiting for Matrix Orthogonal Polynomials (M Castro, F A Grünbaum, I Pacharoni and I Zurrián)The Orthogonality of Al–Salam–Carlitz Polynomials for Complex Parameters (Howard S Cohl, Roberto S Costas-Santos and Wenqing Xu)Crouching AGM, Hidden Modularity (Shaun Cooper, Jesús Guillera, Armin Straub and Wadim Zudilin)Asymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials and the Painlevé Transcendents (Dan Dai)From the Gaussian Circle Problem to Multivariate Shannon Sampling (Willi Freeden and M Zuhair Nashed)Weighted Partition Identities and Divisor Sums (F G Garvan)On the Ismail–Letessier–Askey Monotonicity Conjecture for Zeros of Ultraspherical Polynomials (Walter Gautschi)A Discrete Top-Down Markov Problem in Approximation Theory (Walter Gautschi)Supersymmetry of the Quantum Rotor (Vincent X Genest, Luc Vinet, Guo-Fu Yu and Alexei Zhedanov)The Method of Brackets in Experimental Mathematics (Ivan Gonzalez, Karen Kohl, Lin Jiu and Victor H Moll)Balanced Modular Parameterizations (Tim Huber, Danny Lara and Esteban Melendez)Some Smallest Parts Functions from Variations of Bailey's Lemma (Chris Jennings-Shaffer)Dual Addition Formulas Associated with Dual Product Formulas (Tom H Koornwinder)Holonomic Tools for Basic Hypergeometric Functions (Christoph Koutschan and Peter Paule)A Direct Evaluation of an Integral of Ismail and Valent (Alexey Kuznetsov)Algebraic Generating Functions for Gegenbauer Polynomials (Robert S Maier)q-Analogues of Two Product Formulas of Hypergeometric Functions by Bailey (Michael J Schlosser)Summation Formulae for Noncommutative Hypergeometric Series (Michael J Schlosser)Asymptotics of Generalized Hypergeometric Functions (Y Lin and R Wong)Mock Theta-Functions of the Third Order of Ramanujan in Terms of Appell–Lerch Series (Changgui Zhang)On Certain Positive Semidefinite Matrices of Special Functions (Ruiming Zhang) Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in orthogonal polynomials and

This volume contains selected refereed papers based on lectures presented at the ‘Integers Conference 2007’, an international conference in combinatorial number theory that was held in Carrollton, Georgia in October 2007. The proceedings include contributions from many distinguished speakers, including George Andrews, Neil Hindman, Florian Luca, Carl Pomerance, Ken Ono and Igor E. Shparlinski. Among the topics considered in these papers are additive number theory, multiplicative number theory, sequences, elementary number theory, theory of partitions, and Ramsey theory.