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Motivated by the many roles that hook lengths play in mathematics, we study the distribution of the number of $t$-hooks in the partitions of $n$. We prove that the limiting distribution is normal with mean $\mu_t(n)\sim…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Michael Griffin , Ken Ono , Wei-Lun Tsai

Recently, Griffin, Ono, and Tsai examined the distribution of the number of $t$-hooks in partitions of $n$, which was later followed by the work of Craig, Ono, and Singh on the distribution of the number of $t$-hooks in self-conjugate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Hyunsoo Cho , Byungchan Kim , Eunmi Kim , Ae Ja Yee

We confirm the speculation that the distribution of $t$-hooks among unrestricted integer partitions essentially descends to self-conjugate partitions. Namely, we prove that the number of hooks of length $t$ among the size $n$ self-conjugate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-11 William Craig , Ken Ono , Ajit Singh

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…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Kathrin Bringmann , William Craig , Joshua Males , Ken Ono

The purpose of this note is to introduce a new approach to the study of one of the most basic and seemingly intractable problems in partition theory, namely the conjecture that the partition function $p(n)$ is equidistributed modulo 2. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Samuel D. Judge , William J. Keith , Fabrizio Zanello

Motivated in part by hook-content formulas for certain restricted partitions in representation theory, we consider the total number of hooks of fixed length in odd versus distinct partitions. We show that there are more hooks of length $2$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Cristina Ballantine , Hannah Burson , William Craig , Amanda Folsom , Boya Wen

In a recent paper, Bringmann, Craig, Ono, and the author showed that the number of $t$-hooks ($t\geq2$) among all partitions of $n$ is not always asymptotically equidistributed on congruence classes $a \pmod{b}$. In this short note, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Joshua Males

In this article, we study hook lengths of ordinary partitions and $t$-regular partitions. We establish hook length biases for the ordinary partitions and motivated by them we find a few interesting hook length biases in $2$-regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Gurinder Singh , Rupam Barman

Let $p_t(a,b;n)$ denote the number of partitions of $n$ such that the number of $t$ hooks is congruent to $a \bmod{b}$. For $t\in \{2, 3\}$, arithmetic progressions $r_1 \bmod{m_1}$ and $r_2 \bmod{m_2}$ on which $p_t(r_1,m_1; m_2 n + r_2)$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Eleanor Mcspirit , Kristen Scheckelhoff

For fixed $t = 2$ or $3$, we investigate the statistical properties of $\{Y_t(n)\}$, the sequence of random variables corresponding to the number of hook lengths divisible by $t$ among the partitions of $n$. We characterize the support of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Hannah Lang , Hamilton Wan , Nancy Xu

The partition function $p(n)$ has been a testing ground for applications of analytic number theory to combinatorics. In particular, Hardy and Ramanujan invented the "circle method" to estimate the size of $p(n)$, which was later perfected…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Jonas Iskander , Vanshika Jain , Victoria Talvola

Motivated by a recent paper of Straub, we study the distribution of integer partitions according to the length of their largest hook, instead of the usual statistic, namely the size of the partitions. We refine Straub's analogue of Euler's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Shishuo Fu , Dazhao Tang

Fix $t \geq 2$. We first give an asymptotic formula for certain sums of the number of $t$-cores. We then use this result to compute the distribution of the size of the $t$-core of a uniformly random partition of an integer $n$. We show that…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Arvind Ayyer , Shubham Sinha

In 2010, G.-N. Han obtained the generating function for the number of size $t$ hooks among integer partitions. Here we obtain these generating functions for self-conjugate partitions, which are particularly elegant for even $t$. If…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Tewodros Amdeberhan , George E. Andrews , Ken Ono , Ajit Singh

Stanley defined a partition function t(n) as the number of partitions $\lambda$ of n such that the number of odd parts of $\lambda$ is congruent to the number of odd parts of the conjugate partition $\lambda'$ modulo 4. We show that t(n)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-29 William Y. C. Chen , Kathy Q. Ji , Albert J. W. Zhu

Let $p(n)$ be the number of all integer partitions of the positive integer $n$ and let $\lambda$ be a partition, selected uniformly at random from among all such $p(n)$ partitions. It is known that each partition $\lambda$ has a unique…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Ljuben Mutafchiev

Let $t\geq2$ and $k\geq1$ be integers. A $t$-regular partition of a positive integer $n$ is a partition of $n$ such that none of its parts is divisible by $t$. Let $b_{t,k}(n)$ denote the number of hooks of length $k$ in all the $t$-regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Gurinder Singh , Rupam Barman

In this paper, we consider the asymptotic properties of hook numbers of partitions in restricted classes. More specifically, we compare the frequency with which partitions into odd parts and partitions into distinct parts have hook numbers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-13 William Craig , Madeline Locus Dawsey , Guo-Niu Han

For a positive integer $n$, let $p(n)$ be the number of ways to express $n$ as a sum of positive integers. In this note, we revisit the derivation of the Rademacher's convergent series for $p(n)$ in a pedagogical way, with all the details…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Ze-Yong Kong , Lee-Peng Teo

This paper shows that the number of hooks of length k contained in all partitions of n equals k times the number of parts of length k in all partitions of n. It contains also formulas for the moments (under uniform distribution) of k-th…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Roland Bacher , Laurent Manivel
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