OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
The power series appears to be well defined, only the interpretation is conjectural.
Now proved by Tzeng. - Andrey Zabolotskiy, Jun 22 2021
LINKS
Lothar Göttsche, A conjectural generating function for numbers of curves on surfaces, Communications in mathematical physics 196.3 (1998): 523-533. Also arXiv:alg-geom/9711012, Nov 1997.
Yu-jong Tzeng, A proof of the Göttsche-Yau-Zaslow formula, Stanford University, 2010.
FORMULA
B_1(q) = 1 - q - 5*q^2 + 39*q^3 - 345*q^4 + 2961*q^5 - 24866*q^6 + 207759*q^7 - 1737670*q^8 + 14584625*q^9 - 122937305*q^10 + 1040906771*q^11 - 8852158628*q^12 + 75598131215*q^13 - 648168748072*q^14 + 5577807139921*q^15 - 48163964723088*q^16 + 417210529188188*q^17 - 3624610235789053*q^18 + 31575290280786530*q^19 - 275758194822813754*q^20 + ...
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
sign
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 29 2019
EXTENSIONS
Missing a(1) = -1 inserted by Andrey Zabolotskiy, Jun 22 2021
STATUS
approved