Finite differences of the logarithm of the partition function

DOI10.1090/MCOM/2999MaRDI QIDQ2792343zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William Y. C. Chen, Larry X. W. Wang, Gary Y. B. Xie

Publication date 9 March 2016

Published in Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0177

zbMATH Keywords

partition functionupper boundsdifference operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials (11B68) Combinatorial inequalities (05A20) Analytic theory of partitions (11P82)

Abstract: Let $p(n)$ denote the partition function. DeSalvo and Pak proved that $fracp(n-1)p(n)left(1+frac1night)>fracp(n)p(n+1)$ for $ngeq2$, as conjectured by Chen. Moreover, they conjectured that a sharper inequality $fracp(n-1)p(n)left(1+fracpisqrt24n^{3/2}ight)>fracp(n)p(n+1)$ holds for $ngeq45$. In this paper, we prove the conjecture of Desalvo and Pak by giving an upper bound for $-Delt{a}^{2}logp(n-1)$, where $Delta$ is the difference operator with respect to $n$. We also show that for given $rgeq1$ and sufficiently large $n$, $(-1{)}^{r-1}Delt{a}^{r}logp(n)>0$. This is analogous to the positivity of finite differences of the partition function. It was conjectured by Good and proved by Gupta that for given $rgeq1$, $Delt{a}^{r}p(n)>0$ for sufficiently large $n$.

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