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A note on multiset reconstruction from sum and pairwise products

Combinatorics 2025-08-05 v1

Abstract

Ballantine, Beck, and Merca defined a map pre2\mathrm{pre}_2, which sends an integer partition λ=(λ1,,λ)\lambda = (\lambda_1, \dots, \lambda_{\ell}) to the set {λiλj:1i<j}\{\lambda_i\lambda_j : 1 \leq i < j \leq \ell\} consisting of the pairwise products of parts of λ\lambda. The same three authors and Sagan conjectured that for each nn, the map pre2\mathrm{pre}_2 is injective on the set of integer partitions of nn. In this note, we prove their conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2508.00971,
  title  = {A note on multiset reconstruction from sum and pairwise products},
  author = {Stella Jiahui Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00971},
  year   = {2025}
}

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