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We give an asymptotic estimate for the number of partitions of a set of $n$ elements, whose block sizes avoid a given set $\mathcal{S}$ of natural numbers. As an application, we derive an estimate for the number of partitions of a set with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Joshua Culver , Andreas Weingartner

Given a set of integers W, the Partition problem determines whether W can be divided into two disjoint subsets with equal sums. We model the Partition problem as a system of polynomial equations, and then investigate the complexity of a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-12 Susan Margulies , Shmuel Onn , Dmitrii Pasechnik

In this paper we study the Product Partition Problem (PPP), i.e. we are given a set of $n$ natural numbers represented on $m$ bits each and we are asked if a subset exists such that the product of the numbers in the subset equals the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Marius Costandin

Following Cayley, MacMahon, and Sylvester, define a non-unitary partition to be an integer partition with no part equal to one, and let $\nu(n)$ denote the number of non-unitary partitions of size $n$. In a 2021 paper, the sixth author…

We present a polynomial time algorithm, which solves a nonstandard Variation of the well-known PARTITION-problem: Given positive integers $n, k$ and $t$ such that $t \geq n$ and $k \cdot t = {n+1 \choose 2}$, the algorithm partitions the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Alexander Büchel , Ulrich Gilleßen , Kurt-Ulrich Witt

In this paper, we study various classes of partition functions such as those related to the parity of the number of parts, to differences of partition numbers, and to partitions with a repeated smallest part. We establish identities…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Rahul Kumar , Nargish Punia

The set splittability problem is the following: given a finite collection of finite sets, does there exits a single set that contains exactly half the elements from each set in the collection? (If a set has odd size, we allow the floor or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Peter Bernstein , Cashous Bortner , Samuel Coskey , Shuni Li , Connor Simpson

A numerical framework based on network partition and operator splitting is developed to solve nonlinear differential equations of large-scale dynamic processes encountered in physics, chemistry and biology. Under the assumption that those…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Shucheng Pan , Jianhang Wang , Xiangyu Hu , Nikolaus A. Adams

Andrews, Lewis and Lovejoy introduced the partition function $PD(n)$ as the number of partitions of $n$ with designated summands. In a recent work, Lin studied a partition function $PD_{t}(n)$ which counts the number of tagged parts over…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Robert. X. J. Hao , Erin Y. Y. Shen , Wenston J. T. Zang

In 2019, Andrews investigated integer partitions in which all parts of a given parity are smaller than those of the opposite parity and introduced eight partition functions based on the parity of the smaller parts and parts of a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Yan Fan , Ernest X. W. Xia

A partition of a positive integer $n$ is a non-increasing sequence of positive integers which sum to $n$. A recently studied aspect of partitions is the minimal excludant of a partition, which is defined to be the smallest positive integer…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Judy Ann Donato

We derive new formulas for the number of unordered (distinct) factorizations with $k$ parts of a positive integer $n$ as sums over the partitions of $k$ and an auxiliary function, the number of partitions of the prime exponents of $n$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Jacob Sprittulla

The Satisfactory Partition problem consists in deciding if the set of vertices of a given undirected graph can be partitioned into two nonempty parts such that each vertex has at least as many neighbours in its part as in the other part.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity , Shuvam Kant Tripathi

This article investigates structural connections between unrefinable partitions into distinct parts and numerical semigroups. By analysing the hooksets of Young diagrams associated with numerical sets, new criteria for recognising…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Lorenzo Campioni

We present a new FPTAS for the Subset Sum Ratio problem, which, given a set of integers, asks for two disjoint subsets such that the ratio of their sums is as close to $1$ as possible. Our scheme makes use of exact and approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Giannis Alonistiotis , Antonis Antonopoulos , Nikolaos Melissinos , Aris Pagourtzis , Stavros Petsalakis , Manolis Vasilakis

A double partition problem asks for a number of nonnegative integer solutions to a system of two linear Diophantine equations with integer coefficients. Artur Cayley suggested a reduction of a double partition to a sum of scalar partitions…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Boris Rubinstein

For a partition $\lambda \vdash n$, we let $\operatorname{pd}(\lambda)$, the parity difference of $\lambda$, be the number of odd parts of $\lambda$ minus the number of even parts of $\lambda$. We prove for $c_0\in\mathbb{R}$ an asymptotic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Siu Hang Man

We obtain a combinatorial proof of a surprising weighted partition equality of Berkovich and Uncu. Our proof naturally leads to a formula for the number of partitions with a given parity of the smallest part, in terms of S(i), the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Damanvir Singh Binner

Hypergraph partitioning lies at the heart of a number of problems in machine learning and network sciences. Many algorithms for hypergraph partitioning have been proposed that extend standard approaches for graph partitioning to the case of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Ambedkar Dukkipati

We study the optimization version of the set partition problem (where the difference between the partition sums are minimized), which has numerous applications in decision theory literature. While the set partitioning problem is NP-hard and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu