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Maximal multiplicative properties of partitions

Combinatorics 2014-04-08 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

Extending the partition function multiplicatively to a function on partitions, we show that it has a unique maximum at an explicitly given partition for any n7n\neq 7. The basis for this is an inequality for the partition function which seems not to have been noticed before.

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@article{arxiv.1403.3352,
  title  = {Maximal multiplicative properties of partitions},
  author = {Christine Bessenrodt and Ken Ono},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3352},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

5 pages; in replacement: one typo in References corrected. To appear in: Annals of Combinatorics

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