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Core partitions into distinct parts and an analog of Euler's theorem

Combinatorics 2016-01-27 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

A special case of an elegant result due to Anderson proves that the number of (s,s+1)(s,s+1)-core partitions is finite and is given by the Catalan number CsC_s. Amdeberhan recently conjectured that the number of (s,s+1)(s,s+1)-core partitions into distinct parts equals the Fibonacci number Fs+1F_{s+1}. We prove this conjecture by enumerating, more generally, (s,ds1)(s,ds-1)-core partitions into distinct parts. We do this by relating them to certain tuples of nested twin-free sets. As a by-product of our results, we obtain a bijection between partitions into distinct parts and partitions into odd parts, which preserves the perimeter (that is, the largest part plus the number of parts minus 11). This simple but curious analog of Euler's theorem appears to be missing from the literature on partitions.

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@article{arxiv.1601.07161,
  title  = {Core partitions into distinct parts and an analog of Euler's theorem},
  author = {Armin Straub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.07161},
  year   = {2016}
}

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