Log-concavity of the restricted partition function \(p_{\mathcal{A}}(n, k)\) and the new Bessenrodt-Ono type inequality (Q6156545)

Let \(\mathcal A = (a_i)_{i=1}^\infty\) be a non-decreasing sequence of positive integers, and let \(k\in\mathbb{N}_+\) be fixed. The restricted partition function \(p_{\mathcal A}(n, k)\) is given by \[ \sum_{n=0}^\infty p_{\mathcal A}(n, k)\,q^n = \prod_{i=1}^k \frac{1}{1-q^{a_i}}. \] In this paper, the author investigates under what conditions on positive integers \(a\), \(b\) and \(k\) and the set \(\{a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_k\}\), the inequality \[ p_{\mathcal A}(a, k)\,p_{\mathcal A}(b, k) > p_{\mathcal A}(a+b, k) \] holds. In this context, the author discovers when and under what conditions on \(k\), \(\{a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_k\}\) and \(N\in\mathbb{N}_+\) the sequence \((p_{\mathcal A}(n, k))_{n=N}^\infty\) is log-concave.