Partition Statistics Equidistributed with the Number of Hook Difference One Cells

MaRDI QIDQ6251168zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jiaoyang Huang, Andrew Senger, Peter Wear, Tianqi Wu

Publication date 30 April 2014

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) (q)-calculus and related topics (05A30)

Abstract: Let $lambda$ be a partition, viewed as a Young diagram. We define the hook difference of a cell of $lambda$ to be the difference of its leg and arm lengths. Define $h_{1,1}(lambda)$ to be the number of cells of $lambda$ with hook difference one. In the paper of Buryak and Feigin (arXiv:1206.5640), algebraic geometry is used to prove a generating function identity which implies that $h_{1,1}$ is equidistributed with $a_2$, the largest part of a partition that appears at least twice, over the partitions of a given size. In this paper, we propose a refinement of the theorem of Buryak and Feigin and prove some partial results using combinatorial methods. We also obtain a new formula for the q-Catalan numbers which naturally leads us to define a new q,t-Catalan number with a simple combinatorial interpretation.

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