►As proceeds along the entire real axis with the upper half-plane on the right, describes the rectangle in the clockwise direction; hence is negative imaginary.
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►The corresponding unrestricted
partition function is denoted by , and the summands are called parts; see §26.9(i).
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►The number of partitions of into at most
parts is denoted by ; again see §26.9(i).
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►where and is given by (27.14.11).
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►The 24th power of in (27.14.12) with is an infinite product that generates a power series in with integer coefficients called Ramanujan’s tau function
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