Some remarks on Rogers-Szeg\"o polynomials and Losanitsch's triangle

Abstract

In this expository paper we collect some simple facts about analogues of Pascals triangle where the entries count subsets of the integers with an even or odd sum and show that they are related to Rogers-Szego polynomials. In particular we consider an interesting triangle due to Losanitsch from this point of view. We also sketch some extensions of these results to sets whose sums have fixed residues modulo a prime $p$.