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Distributions of parity differences and biases in partitions into distinct parts

Number Theory 2025-04-04 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

For a partition λn\lambda \vdash n, we let pd(λ)\operatorname{pd}(\lambda), the parity difference of λ\lambda, be the number of odd parts of λ\lambda minus the number of even parts of λ\lambda. We prove for c0Rc_0\in\mathbb{R} an asymptotic expansion for the number of partitions of nn into distinct parts with normalised parity difference n1/4pd(λ)n^{- 1/4}\operatorname{pd}(\lambda) greater than c0c_0 as nn\to \infty. As a corollary, we find the distribution of the parity differences and parity biases for partitions of nn into distinct parts. We also establish analogous results for generalised parity differences modulo NN.

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@article{arxiv.2306.11909,
  title  = {Distributions of parity differences and biases in partitions into distinct parts},
  author = {Siu Hang Man},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11909},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Accepted version, 24 pages, 4 figures