Partitions with fixed differences between largest and smallest parts

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2015-12591-9MaRDI QIDQ2944779zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George E. Andrews, Matthias Beck, Neville Robbins

Publication date 8 September 2015

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3374

zbMATH Keywords

fixed difference between largest and smallest partsinteger partitionquasipolynomialrational generating function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Partition identities; identities of Rogers-Ramanujan type (11P84)

Abstract: We study the number $p(n,t)$ of partitions of $n$ with difference $t$ between largest and smallest parts. Our main result is an explicit formula for the generating function $P_t(q):=su{m}_{nge1}p(n,t),q^n$. Somewhat surprisingly, $P_t(q)$ is a rational function for $t>1$; equivalently, $p(n,t)$ is a quasipolynomial in $n$ for fixed $t>1$. Our result generalizes to partitions with an arbitrary number of specified distances.

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