OFFSET
0,5
REFERENCES
Srinivasa Ramanujan, The Lost Notebook and Other Unpublished Papers, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, 1988, p. 9.
LINKS
Vaclav Kotesovec, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000 (corrected and extended previous b-file from G. C. Greubel)
Youn-Seo Choi, Tenth order mock theta functions in Ramanujan's lost notebook, Inventiones Mathematicae, 136 (1999) pp. 497-569.
FORMULA
G.f.: chi(q) = Sum_{n >= 0} (-1)^n q^(n+1)^2/((1+q)(1+q^2)...(1+q^(2n+1))).
a(n) ~ -(-1)^n * sqrt(phi) * exp(Pi*sqrt(n/10)) / (2*5^(1/4)*sqrt(n)), where phi = A001622 = (1+sqrt(5))/2 is the golden ratio. - Vaclav Kotesovec, Jun 12 2019
MATHEMATICA
Series[Sum[(-1)^n q^(n+1)^2/Product[1+q^k, {k, 1, 2n+1}], {n, 0, 9}], {q, 0, 100}]
nmax = 100; CoefficientList[Series[Sum[(-1)^k * x^((k+1)^2)/Product[1+x^j, {j, 1, 2*k+1}], {k, 0, Floor[Sqrt[nmax]]}], {x, 0, nmax}], x] (* Vaclav Kotesovec, Jun 11 2019 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
sign,easy
AUTHOR
Dean Hickerson, Dec 19 1999
STATUS
approved