Distribution of parity differences in partitions into distinct parts

Abstract: For a partition

l a m b d a v d a s h n

, we let

o p e r a t o r n a m e p d (l a m b d a)

, the parity difference of

l a m b d a

, to be the number of odd parts of

l a m b d a

minus the number of even parts of

l a m b d a

. We show that as

n o i n f t y

, the normalised parity difference

n^{- f r a c 14} o p e r a t o r n a m e p d (l a m b d a)

for partitions of

n

into distinct parts is normally distributed with mean

0

and variance

f r a c s q r t 3 p i

. We also establish analogous results for generalised parity differences modulo

N

.

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