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This paper deals with both the higher order Tur\'an inequalities and the Laguerre inequalities for quasi-polynomial-like functions -- that are expressions of the form $f(n)=c_l(n)n^l+\cdots+c_d(n)n^d+o(n^d)$, where $d,l\in\mathbb{N}$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Krystian Gajdzica

Let $\overline{p}(n)$ denote the number of overpartitions of $n$. Recently, Fortin-Jacob-Mathieu and Hirschhorn-Sellers independently obtained 2-, 3- and 4-dissections of the generating function for $\overline{p}(n)$ and derived a number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-08 William Y. C. Chen , Qing-Hu Hou , Lisa H. Sun , Li Zhang

Let $\overline{N}_2(a,c,n)$ be the number of overpartitions of $n$ whose the $M_2$-rank is congruent to $a$ modulo $c$. In this paper, we obtain the asymptotic formula of $\overline{N}_2(a,c,n)$ utilizing the Ingham Tauberian Theorem. As…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Helen W. J. Zhang , Ying Zhong

Recently, Chen, He, Hu and Xie considered the parity of the number of non-overlined (resp. overlined) parts of size greater than or equal to the size of the smallest overlined (resp. non-overlined) part in an overpartition. In this article,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Thomas Y. He , H. X. Huang , Y. X. Xie , T. T. Zou

Motivated by a partition inequality of Bessenrodt and Ono, we obtain analogous inequalities for $k$-colored partition functions $p_{-k}(n)$ for all $k\geq2$. This enables us to extend the $k$-colored partition function multiplicatively to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Shane Chern , Shishuo Fu , Dazhao Tang

Recently, several mathematicians have investigated various partition functions with the goal of discovering Ramanujan-type congruences. One such function is $\overline{B}_{2^\alpha}(n)$, which represents the number of $2^\alpha-$regular…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Hemanthkumar B. , Sumanth Bharadwaj H. S

Let $\overline{p}(n)$ denote the overpartition function. In this paper, we study the asymptotic growth of finite difference of logarithm of $\sqrt[n]{\overline{p}(n)/n^{\alpha}}$ for $\alpha$ being a non-negative real number, namely…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Gargi Mukherjee

Two new expansions for partial sums of Gauss' triangular and square numbers series are given. As a consequence, we derive a family of inequalities for the overpartition function $\bar{p}(n)$ and for the partition function $p_1(n)$ counting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-15 Victor J. W. Guo , Jiang Zeng

In this paper we compute asymptotics for the coefficients of an infinite class of overpartition rank generating functions. Using these results, we show that $ \overline{N}(a,c,n), $ the number of overpartitions of $ n $ with rank congruent…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Alexandru Ciolan

The polynomials $p_n$ orthogonal on the interval $[-1,1],$ normalized by $p_n(1)=1,$ satisfy Tur\'an's inequality if $p_n^2(x)-p_{n-1}(x)p_{n+1}(x)\ge 0$ for $n\ge 1$ and for all $x$ in the interval of orthogonality. We give a general…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Ryszard Szwarc

The rank of partitions play an important role in the combinatorial interpretations of several Ramanujan's famous congruence formulas. In 2005 and 2008, the $D$-rank and $M_2$-rank of an overpartition were introduced by Lovejoy,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Huan Xiong , Wenston J. T. Zang

Alanzi et al. (2022) investigated overpartition of a positive integer $n$ with $\ell$-regular non-overlined parts denoted by $\overline R_\ell^\ast (n)$, and proved some results for the case $\ell=3$. As extension to the results of Alanzi…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Nipen Saikia , Adam Paksok

We prove that the number $q(n)$ of partitions into distinct parts is log-concave for $n \geq 33$ and satisfies the higher order Tur\'an inequalities for $n\geq 121$ conjectured by Craig and Pun. In doing so, we establish explicit error…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Janet J. W. Dong , Kathy Q. Ji

The main result of the paper is the Fibonacci-like property of the partition function. The partition function $p(n)$ has a property: $p(n) \leq p(n-1) + p(n-2)$. Our result shows that if we impose certain restrictions on the partition, then…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Qi-Yang Zheng

Bessenrodt and Ono initially found the strict log-subadditivity of partition function $p(n)$, that is, $p(a+b)< p(a)p(b)$ for $a,b>1$ and $a+b>9$. Many other important statistics of partitions are proved to enjoy similar properties. Lovejoy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Helen W. J. Zhang , Ying Zhong

Let $p(n)$ denote the partition function. DeSalvo and Pak proved that $\frac{p(n-1)}{p(n)}\left(1+\frac{1}{n}\right)> \frac{p(n)}{p(n+1)}$ for $n\geq 2$, as conjectured by Chen. Moreover, they conjectured that a sharper inequality…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-02 William Y. C. Chen , Larry X. W. Wang , Gary Y. B. Xie

In this paper first we survey the Tur\'an type inequalities and related problems for the Bessel functions of the first kind. Then we extend the known higher order Tur\'an type inequalities for Bessel functions of the first kind to real…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-01-22 Árpád Baricz , Tibor K. Pogány

Recently, Andrews considered the partitions with parts separated by parity, in which parts of a given parity are all smaller than those of the other parity. Inspired from the partitions with parts separated by parity, we investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Y. H. Chen , Thomas Y. He , Y. Hu , Y. X. Xie

Let $\overline{p}(n)$ denote the overpartition function, and for $j\in \mathbb{N}$, $\Delta^r_j$ denote the $r$-fold applications of the shifted difference operator $\Delta_j$ defined by $\Delta_j(a)(n):=a(n)-a(n-j)$. The main goal of this…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Gargi Mukherjee

In the $1970$s, Nicolas proved that the partition function $p(n)$ is log-concave for $ n > 25$. In \cite{HNT21}, a precise conjecture on the log-concavity for the plane partition function $\func{pp}(n)$ for $n >11$ was stated. This was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Bernhard Heim , Markus Neuhauser