Distributions of Hook lengths in integer partitions

Abstract: 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

m u_{t} (n) s i m f r a c s q r t 6 n p i - f r a c t 2

and variance

s i g m a_{t}^{2} (n) s i m f r a c (p i^{2} - 6) s q r t 6 n 2 p i^{3} .

Furthermore, we prove that the distribution of the number of hook lengths that are multiples of a fixed

t g e q 4

in partitions of

n

converge to a shifted Gamma distribution with parameter

k = (t - 1) / 2

and scale

h e t a = s q r t 2 / (t - 1) .

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