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A "supernormal" partition statistic

Number Theory 2021-09-16 v2

Abstract

We study a bijective map from integer partitions to the prime factorizations of integers that we call the "supernorm" of a partition, in which the multiplicities of the parts of partitions are mapped to the multiplicities of prime factors of natural numbers. The supernorm is connected to a family of maps we define, which suggests the potential to apply techniques from partition theory to identify and prove multiplicative properties of integers. We make a brief study of pertinent analytic aspects of the supernorm. Then, as an application of "supernorma"' mappings (i.e., pertaining to the supernorm statistic), we prove an analogue of a formula of Kural-McDonald-Sah to give arithmetic densities of subsets of N\mathbb N instead of natural densities in P\mathbb P like previous formulas of this type; this builds on works of Alladi, Ono, Wagner, and the first and third authors. Finally, using a table of "supernormal" additive-multiplicative correspondences, we conjecture Abelian-type formulas that specialize to our main theorem and other known results.

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@article{arxiv.2107.14284,
  title  = {A "supernormal" partition statistic},
  author = {Madeline Locus Dawsey and Matthew Just and Robert Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14284},
  year   = {2021}
}

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19 pages, submitted for publication

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