Asymptotics for moments of the minimal partition excludant in congruence classes
Number Theory
2025-07-22 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
The minimal excludant statistic, which denotes the smallest positive integer that is not a part of an integer partition, has received great interest in recent years. In this paper, we move on to the smallest positive integer whose frequency is less than a given number. We establish an asymptotic formula for the moments of such generalized minimal excludants that fall in a specific congruence class. In particular, our estimation reveals that the moments associated with a fixed modulus are asymptotically ``equal''.
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@article{arxiv.2507.14431,
title = {Asymptotics for moments of the minimal partition excludant in congruence classes},
author = {Shane Chern and Ernest X. W. Xia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.14431},
year = {2025}
}
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Submitted for publication in 2024