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Distributions on partitions arising from Hilbert schemes and hook lengths

Number Theory 2022-04-19 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

Recent works at the interface of algebraic combinatorics, algebraic geometry, number theory, and topology have provided new integer-valued invariants on integer partitions. It is natural to consider the distribution of partitions when sorted by these invariants in congruence classes. We consider the prominent situations which arise from extensions of the Nekrasov-Okounkov hook product formula, and from Betti numbers of various Hilbert schemes of nn points on C2.\mathbb{C}^2. For the Hilbert schemes, we prove that homology is equidistributed as n.n\to \infty. For tt-hooks, we prove distributions which are often not equidistributed. The cases where t{2,3}t\in \{2, 3\} stand out, as there are congruence classes where such counts are zero. To obtain these distributions, we obtain analytic results which are of independent interest. We determine the asymptotics, near roots of unity, of the ubiquitous infinite products F1(ξ;q):=n=1(1ξqn),   F2(ξ;q):=n=1(1(ξq)n)   and   F3(ξ;q):=n=1(1ξ1(ξq)n). F_1(\xi; q):=\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\left(1-\xi q^n\right), \ \ \ F_2(\xi; q):=\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\left(1-(\xi q)^n\right) \ \ \ {\text {and}}\ \ \ F_3(\xi; q):=\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\left(1-\xi^{-1}(\xi q)^n\right).

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@article{arxiv.2109.10394,
  title  = {Distributions on partitions arising from Hilbert schemes and hook lengths},
  author = {Kathrin Bringmann and William Craig and Joshua Males and Ken Ono},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.10394},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

27 pages, comments welcome. Minor revision addresses comments by referees