Hook lengths in self-conjugate partitions
Combinatorics
2024-02-09 v3
Abstract
In 2010, G.-N. Han obtained the generating function for the number of size hooks among integer partitions. Here we obtain these generating functions for self-conjugate partitions, which are particularly elegant for even . If is the number of size hooks in a partition then for even we have As a consequence, if is the number of such hooks among the self-conjugate partitions of then for even we obtain the simple formula where is the number of partitions of into distinct odd parts. As a corollary, we find that which confirms a conjecture of Ballantine, Burson, Craig, Folsom, and Wen.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2312.02933,
title = {Hook lengths in self-conjugate partitions},
author = {Tewodros Amdeberhan and George E. Andrews and Ken Ono and Ajit Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.02933},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
12 pages; minor revision based on referee reports