English

On simultaneous $(s, s+t, s+2t, \dots)$-core partitions

Combinatorics 2025-12-18 v2

Abstract

We consider simultaneous (s,s+t,s+2t,,s+pt)(s,s+t,s+2t,\dots,s+pt)-core partitions in the large-pp limit, or (when s<ts<t), partitions in which no hook may be of length s(modt)s \pmod{t}. We study generating functions, containment properties, and congruences when ss is not coprime to tt. As a boundary case of the general study made by Cho, Huh and Sohn, we provide enumerations when ss is coprime to tt, and answer positively a conjecture of Fayers on the polynomial behavior of the size of the set of simultaneous (s,s+t,s+2t,,s+pt)(s,s+t,s+2t,\dots,s+pt)-core partitions when pp grows arbitrarily large. Of particular interest throughout is the comparison to the behavior of simultaneous (s,t)(s,t)-cores.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2508.00074,
  title  = {On simultaneous $(s, s+t, s+2t, \dots)$-core partitions},
  author = {William Keith and Rishi Nath and James Sellers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00074},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v2: Accepted to Discrete Mathematics

R2 v1 2026-07-01T04:28:26.222Z