In this talk I present recent results obtained with Markus Neuhauser towards the non-vanishing of the coefficients of the Dedekind eta function in the spirit of G.-C. Rota. This includes Serreās table, pentagonal numbers, results of Kostant in the context of simple affine Lie algebras and the Lehmer conjecture. In the second part I will talk about partition numbers and the Bessenrodt-Ono inequality.
Links:
[1] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/246