Diagonal hooks and a Schmidt-type partition identity

DOI10.37236/10803MaRDI QIDQ2138566zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shane Chern, Ae Ja Yee

Publication date 12 May 2022

Published in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.37236/10803

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zbMATH Keywords

Durfee squares

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

The Durfee square of a partition is the largest squre that fits inside the Ferrers diagram of the partition. The hook lengths of the \(i\)-th diagonal entry of the Durfee square of a partition \(\lambda\) (denoted by \(\Gamma_i(\lambda)\)) are called the diagonal hook lengths of the partition. The main result proved in this paper is the following: Let \(\gamma_e(n)\) (resp. \(\gamma_o(n)\)) be the number of partitions \(\lambda\) such that its length (number of parts) and the length of its Durfee square has the same parity (resp. different parities) and the diagonal hook lengths satisfy \(\sum_{i\geq 1}(\Gamma_{2i-1}(\lambda)+1)=n\), then \(\gamma_e(n)-\gamma_o(n)\) equals the number of partitions of \(n\) into even parts. The authors give both analytical and combinatorial proofs of this result and discuss certain variations.

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• MacMahon's partition analysis XIII: Schmidt type partitions and modular forms
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