This paper deals with q-series arising from the study of the transitiv
e closure problem in random acyclic digraphs. In particular, it presen
ts an identity involving divisor generating functions which allows us
to determine the asymptotic behavior of polynomials,defined by a gener
al class of recursive equations, including the polynomials for the mea
n and the variance of the size of the transitive closure in random acy
clic digraphs.