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Searching for Modular Companions

December 05, 2019, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Location:

Conference Room 705

Rutgers University

Hill Center

110 Frelinghuysen Rd

Piscataway, NJ 08854

Shashank Kanade, University of Denver

 

In this talk, I will explain that there are (most likely) no other "modular" companions to certain mod-9 partition identities conjectured jointly with Matthew C. Russell. The experiments crucially hinge on Kursungoz's analytic sum-sides for these conjectures and a result of Vlasenko-Zwegers on analytic properties of such sum-sides. I'll have to let q be an actual number, but hopefully it will be fun!