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Computational study of non-unitary partitions

Combinatorics 2024-09-10 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

Following Cayley, MacMahon, and Sylvester, define a non-unitary partition to be an integer partition with no part equal to one, and let ν(n)\nu(n) denote the number of non-unitary partitions of size nn. In a 2021 paper, the sixth author proved a formula to compute p(n)p(n) by enumerating only non-unitary partitions of size nn, and recorded a number of conjectures regarding the growth of ν(n)\nu(n) as nn\to \infty. Here we refine and prove some of these conjectures. For example, we prove p(n)ν(n)n/ζ(2)p(n) \sim \nu(n)\sqrt{n/\zeta(2)} as nn\to \infty, and give Ramanujan-like congruences between p(n)p(n) and ν(n)\nu(n) such as p(5n)ν(5n) (mod5)p(5n)\equiv \nu(5n)\ (\operatorname{mod} 5).

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@article{arxiv.2112.03264,
  title  = {Computational study of non-unitary partitions},
  author = {A. P. Akande and Tyler Genao and Summer Haag and Maurice D. Hendon and Neelima Pulagam and Robert Schneider and Andrew V. Sills},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.03264},
  year   = {2024}
}

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9 pages, to appear in The Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society

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