s-Lecture hall partitions, self-reciprocal polynomials, and Gorenstein cones

In 1997, Bousquet-Mélou and Eriksson initiated the study of lecture hall partitions, a fascinating family of partitions that yield a finite version of Euler’s celebrated odd/distinct partition theorem. In subsequent work on s-lecture hall partitions, they considered the self-reciprocal property for various associated generating functions, with the goal of characterizing those sequences s that give rise to generating functions of the form \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$((1-q^{e_{1}})(1-q^{e_{2}}) \cdots(1-q^{e_{n}}))^{-1}$\end{document}.