Unimodality of partitions in near-rectangular Ferrers diagrams

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2015.04.004MaRDI QIDQ2344795zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel Zbarsky

Publication date 18 May 2015

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3895

zbMATH Keywords

generating functionunimodalityinteger partition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17)

Abstract: We look at the rank generating function $G_{l}ambda$ of partitions inside the Ferrers diagram of some partition $lambda$, investigated by Stanton in 1990, as well as a closely related problem investigated by Stanley and Zanello in 2013. We show that $G_{l}ambda$ is not unimodal for a larger class of 4-part partitions than previously known, and also that if the ratios of parts of $lambda$ are close enough to 1 (depending on how many parts $lambda$ has), or if the first part is at least half the size of $lambda$, then $G_{l}ambda$ is unimodal.

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