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We obtain an asymptotic formula for Andrews and Paule's broken $k$-diamond partition function $\Delta_k(n)$ where $k=1$ or $2$. Based on this asymptotic formula, we derive that $\Delta_k(n)$ satisfies the order $d$ Tur\'an inequalities for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Janet J. W. Dong , Kathy Q. Ji , Dennis X. Q. Jia

Many papers have studied inequalities for Andrews and Paule's broken $k$-diamond partition function $\Delta_{k}(n)$ when $k=1$ or $2$. In this paper, we derive an exact formula for $\Delta_{k}(n)$ when $k\geq 1$. Building on this result, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Ying Zhong

In 2007, Andrews and Paule introduced the broken $k$-diamond partition function $\Delta_{k}(n)$, which has received a lot of researches on the arithmetic propertises. In this paper, we will prove the broken $k$-diamond partition function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Eve Y. Y. Yang

In 2007, Andrews and Paule introduced the family of functions $\Delta_k(n)$, which enumerate the number of broken $k$-diamond partitions for a fixed positive integer $k$. In 2013, Radu and Sellers completely characterized the parity of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Dandan Chen , Rong Chen , Siyu Yin

The notion of broken $k$-diamond partitions was introduced by Andrews and Paule. Let $\Delta_{k}(n)$ denote the number of broken $k$-diamond partitions of $n$ for a fixed positive integer $k$. In this paper, we establish new infinite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Dazhao Tang

The notion of broken $k$-diamond partitions was introduced by Andrews and Paule. Let $\Delta_k(n)$ denote the number of broken k-diamond partitions of $n$. They also posed three conjectures on the congruences of $\Delta_2(n)$ modulo 2, 5…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-15 William Y. C. Chen , Anna R. B. Fan , Rebecca T. Yu

In 2007, Andrews and Paule published the eleventh paper in their series on MacMahon's partition analysis, with a particular focus on broken $k$-diamond partitions. On the way to broken $k$-diamond partitions, Andrews and Paule introduced…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Robson da Silva , Michael D. Hirschhorn , James A. Sellers

Andrews and Paule revisited combinatorial structures known as the $k$-elongated partition diamonds, which were introduced in connection with the study of the broken $k$-diamond partitions. They found the generating function for the number…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Russelle Guadalupe

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 the eleventh paper in the series on MacMahons partition analysis, Andrews and Paule [1] introduced the $k$ elongated partition diamonds. Recently, they [2] revisited the topic. Let $d_k(n)$ count the partitions obtained by adding the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Nayandeep Deka Baruah , Hirakjyoti Das , Pranjal Talukdar

Bessenrodt and Ono, Chen, Wang and Jia, DeSalvo and Pak were the first to discover the log-subadditivity, log-concavity, and the third-order Tur\'{a}n inequality of partition function, respectively. Many other important partition statistics…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Yi Peng , Helen W. J. Zhang , Ying Zhong

Let $\Delta_{k}(n)$ denote the number of $k$-broken diamond partitions of $n$. Quite recently, the second author proved an infinite family of congruences modulo 25 for $\Delta_{k}(n)$ with the help of modular forms. In this paper, we aim to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Shane Chern , Dazhao Tang

Recently, Andrews and Paule introduced a partition function $PDN1(N)$ which denotes the number of partition diamonds with $(n+1)$ copies of $n$ where summing the parts at the links gives $N$. They also presented the generating function for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Julia Q. D. Du , Olivia X. M. Yao

Nicolas and DeSalvo and Pak proved that the partition function $p(n)$ is log concave for $n \geq 25$. Chen, Jia and Wang proved that $p(n)$ satisfies the third order Tur\'{a}n inequality, and that the associated degree 3 Jensen polynomials…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-19 William Craig , Anna Pun

The enumeration $d_k(n)$ of $k$-elongated plane partition diamonds has emerged as a generalization of the classical integer partition function $p(n)$. Congruences for $d_k(n)$ modulo certain powers of primes have been proven via elementary…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Dandan Chen , Tianjian Xu , Siyu Yin

The paper aims to establish the Tur\'an inequalities, the Laguerre inequalities (order $2$), and the determinantal inequalities (order $3$) for $\Delta p(n)$ and $\Delta \bar{p}(n)$, where $\Delta f(n)$ is the first-order forward difference…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Eve Y. Y. Yang

Let $\overline{p}(n)$ denote the overpartition function. In this paper, our primary goal is to study the asymptotic behavior of the finite differences of the logarithm of the overpartition function, i.e., $(-1)^{r-1}\Delta^r \log \p(n)$, by…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Gargi Mukherjee

Let $\overline{p}(n)$ denote the overpartition function. In this paper, we obtain an inequality for the sequence $\Delta^{2}\log \ \sqrt[n-1]{\overline{p}(n-1)/(n-1)^{\alpha}}$ which states that \begin{equation*} \log…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Gargi Mukherjee

In this work we introduce new combinatorial objects called $d$--fold partition diamonds, which generalize both the classical partition function and the partition diamonds of Andrews, Paule and Riese, and we set $r_d(n)$ to be their counting…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Dalen Dockery , Marie Jameson , James A. Sellers , Samuel Wilson

The Tur\'{a}n inequalities and the higher order Tur\'{a}n inequalities arise in the study of Maclaurin coefficients of an entire function in the Laguerre-P\'{o}lya class. A real sequence $\{a_{n}\}$ is said to satisfy the Tur\'{a}n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-03 William Y. C. Chen , Dennis X. Q. Jia , Larry X. W. Wang
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