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Distribution of hooks in self-conjugate partitions

Combinatorics 2025-04-11 v5 Number Theory

Abstract

We confirm the speculation that the distribution of tt-hooks among unrestricted integer partitions essentially descends to self-conjugate partitions. Namely, we prove that the number of hooks of length tt among the size nn self-conjugate partitions is asymptotically normally distributed with mean μt(n)6nπ+3π2t2+δt4\mu_t(n) \sim \frac{\sqrt{6n}}{\pi} + \frac{3}{\pi^2} - \frac{t}{2}+\frac{\delta_t}{4} and variance σt2(n)(π26)6nπ3,\sigma_t^2(n) \sim \frac{(\pi^2 - 6) \sqrt{6n}}{\pi^3}, where δt:=1\delta_t:=1 if tt is odd, and is 0 otherwise.

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@article{arxiv.2406.09059,
  title  = {Distribution of hooks in self-conjugate partitions},
  author = {William Craig and Ken Ono and Ajit Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09059},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Corrected one formula based on referee's comment