Log-concavity of the partition function

DOI10.1007/S11139-014-9599-YzbMath1322.05018arXiv1310.7982OpenAlexW2004035056MaRDI QIDQ746387

Stephen DeSalvo, Igor Pak

Publication date: 16 October 2015

Published in: The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7982

zbMATH Keywords

error estimatespartition functionasymptotic analysisinteger partitionlog-concave sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81) Error analysis and interval analysis (65G99)

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