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Recently, Andrews and Newman studied the minimal excludant of a partition, which is defined as the smallest positive integer that is not a part of a partition. In this article, we consider the minimal excludant size of an overpartition,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Thomas Y. He , C. S. Huang , H. X. Li , X. Zhang

Define the minimal excludant of an overpartition $\pi$, denoted $ \overline{\text{mex}}(\pi)$, to be the smallest positive integer that is not a part of the non-overlined parts of $\pi$. For a positive integer $n$, the function…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Victor Manuel R. Aricheta , Judy Ann L. Donato

In the preceding decade, Andrews and Newman resurrected the concept of a `minimal excludant' of a partition ($mex$, for short), namely, the least positive missing integer in a partition. Subsequently, several authors have not only studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Subhash Chand Bhoria , Pramod Eyyunni , Subhrangsu Santra

An overpartition is a partition such that the first occurrence (equivalently, the last occurrence) of a number may be overlined. In this article, we investigate three contents of overpartitions. We first consider the $r$-chain minimal and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Y. H. Chen , Y. Q. Chen , Thomas Y. He , H. X. Huang , X. Zhang

The minimal excludant of a partition $\lambda$, $\rm{mex}(\lambda)$, is the smallest positive integer that is not a part of $\lambda$. For a positive integer $n$, $ \sigma\, \rm{mex}(n)$ denotes the sum of the minimal excludants of all…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Cristina Ballantine , Mircea Merca

In his classic text, \emph{Combinatory Analysis}, MacMahon defined a perfect partition of a positive integer $n$ as a partition whose parts contain exactly one partition of every positive integer not exceeding $n$. In this paper we apply…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Augustine O. Munagi

For each nonempty integer partition $\pi$, we define the maximal excludant of $\pi$ to be the largest nonnegative integer smaller than the largest part of $\pi$ that is not a part of $\pi$. Let $\sigma\!\operatorname{maex}(n)$ be the sum of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Shane Chern

The average size of the "smallest gap" of a partition was studied by Grabner and Knopfmacher in 2006. Recently, Andrews and Newman, motivated by the work of Fraenkel and Peled, studied the concept of the "smallest gap" under the name…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Prabh Simrat Kaur , Subhash Chand Bhoria , Pramod Eyyunni , Bibekananda Maji

In this article, we introduce the notion of almost consecutive partitions. A partition is almost consecutive if every term is consecutive, with the possible exception of the smallest one. We find formulas relating to the smallest parts of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Rajat Gupta , Noah Lebowitz-Lockard

Inspired by Andrews' and Bachraoui's work on partitions with repeated smallest part, we extend the concept to overpartitions. We study overpartitions with the restriction that the smallest non-overlined part appears exactly $k$ times and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Amita Malik , Rishabh Sarma

Let $\overline{\mathrm{spt}}k(n)$ denote the number of overpartitions of $n$ where the smallest non-overlined part, say $s(\pi)$, appears $k$ times and every overlined part is bigger than $s(\pi)$. Let $\overline{\mathrm{spt}}k_o(n)$ denote…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Nayandeep Deka Baruah , Haijun Li , Pankaj Jyoti Mahanta

The minimal excludant of an integer partition is the least positive integer missing from the partition. Let $\sigma_o\text{mex}(n)$ (resp., $\sigma_e\text{mex}(n)$) denote the sum of odd (resp., even) minimal excludants over all the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Gurinder Singh , Rupam Barman

The minimal excludant statistic, which denotes the smallest positive integer that is not a part of an integer partition, has received great interest in recent years. In this paper, we move on to the smallest positive integer whose frequency…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Shane Chern , Ernest X. W. Xia

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

A partition of a positive integer $n$ is a representation of $n$ as a sum of a finite number of positive integers (called parts). A trapezoidal number is a positive integer that has a partition whose parts are a decreasing sequence of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Melvyn B. Nathanson

Inspired by the study of the minimal excludant in integer partitions by G.E. Andrews and D. Newman, we introduce a pair of new partition statistics, sqrank and rerank. They are related to a polynomial bosonic form of statistical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Taichiro Takagi

For a given partition of (1, 2, ..., 2n) into two disjoint subsets A and B with n elements in each, consider the maximum number of times any integer occurs as the difference between an element of A and an element of B. The minimum value of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Jan Kristian Haugland

Andrews and Newman introduced the minimal excludant or ``$mex$'' function for an integer partition $\pi$ of a positive integer $n$, $mex(\pi)$, as the smallest positive integer that is not a part of $\pi$. They defined $\sigma mex(n)$ to be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Chiranjit Ray

For a positive rational $\alpha$, call a set of distinct positive integers $\{a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_r\}$ an $\alpha$-partition of $n$, if the sum of the $a_i$ is equal to $n$ and the sum of the reciprocals of the $a_i$ is equal to $\alpha$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Wouter van Doorn

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
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