A bijective proof of an identity of Berkovich and Uncu
Combinatorics
2024-09-12 v3 Number Theory
Abstract
The BG-rank BG() of an integer partition is defined as where is the number of odd-indexed odd parts and is the number of even-indexed odd parts of . In a recent work, Fu and Tang ask for a direct combinatorial proof of the following identity of Berkovich and Uncu for any integer and non-negative integer where , is the generating function for partitions into distinct parts less than or equal to with BG-rank equal to and is a Gaussian binomial coefficient. In this paper, we provide a bijective proof of Berkovich and Uncu's identity along the lines of Vandervelde and Fu and Tang's idea.
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@article{arxiv.2309.07785,
title = {A bijective proof of an identity of Berkovich and Uncu},
author = {Aritram Dhar and Avi Mukhopadhyay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07785},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
18 pages, 8 figures. To appear in S\'eminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire