Distributions of Hook Lengths Divisible by Two or Three

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2022.11.016MaRDI QIDQ6404913arXivFDO

Authors Hannah Lang, Hamilton Wan, Nancy Xu

Publication date 13 July 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial probability (60C05) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Analytic theory of partitions (11P82)

Abstract: For fixed $t=2$ or $3$, we investigate the statistical properties of $Y_t(n)$, the sequence of random variables corresponding to the number of hook lengths divisible by $t$ among the partitions of $n$. We characterize the support of $Y_t(n)$ and show, in accordance with empirical observations, that the support is vanishingly small for large $n$. Moreover, we demonstrate that the nonzero values of the mass functions of $Y_2(n)$ and $Y_3(n)$ approximate continuous functions. Finally, we prove that although the mass functions fail to converge, the cumulative distribution functions of $Y_2(n)$ and $Y_3(n)$ converge pointwise to shifted Gamma distributions, completing a characterization initiated by Griffin--Ono--Tsai for $tgeq4$.

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