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An Analytic Formula for Numbers of Restricted Partitions from Conformal Field Theory

Number Theory 2017-03-03 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the correlators of irregular vertex operators in two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) in order to propose an exact analytic formula for calculating numbers of partitions, that is: 1) for given N,kN,k, finding the total number λ(Nk)\lambda(N|k) of length kk partitions of NN: N=n1+...+nk;0<n1n2...nkN=n_1+...+n_k;0<n_1\leq{n_2}...\leq{n_k}. 2) finding the total number λ(N)=k=1Nλ(Nk)\lambda(N)=\sum_{k=1}^N\lambda(N|k) of partitions of a natural number NN We propose an exact analytic expression for λ(Nk)\lambda(N|k) by relating two-point short-distance correlation functions of irregular vertex operators in c=1c=1 conformal field theory ( the form of the operators is established in this paper): with the first correlator counting the partitions in the upper half-plane and the second one obtained from the first correlator by conformal transformations of the form f(z)=h(z)eizf(z)=h(z)e^{-{i\over{z}}} where h(z)h(z) is regular and non-vanishing at z=0z=0. The final formula for λ(Nk)\lambda(N|k) is given in terms of regularized (ϵ\epsilon-ordered) finite series in the generalized higher-derivative Schwarzians and incomplete Bell polynomials of the above conformal transformation at z=iϵz=i\epsilon (ϵ0\epsilon\rightarrow{0})

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@article{arxiv.1702.04631,
  title  = {An Analytic Formula for Numbers of Restricted Partitions from Conformal Field Theory},
  author = {Dimitri Polyakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.04631},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Latex, 15 pages; typos corrected, references added