The aim of this note is to point out some combinatorial applications of a lemma of Scarf, proved first in the context of game theory. The usefulness of the lemma in combinatorics...
Let Q(N) denote the number of partitions of N into distinct parts. If ω(k) := 3k2 +k 2 , then it is well known that Q(N) + ∞X k=1 (−1)k “ Q(N − 2ω(k)) + Q(N − 2ω(−k)...
Recently, Andrews and Berkovich introduced a trinomial version of Bailey’s lemma. In this note we show that each ordinary Bailey pair gives rise to a trinomial Bailey pair. This ...