Multi-cores, posets, and lattice paths

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DOI10.1016/J.AAM.2015.08.002zbMATH Open1322.05014arXiv1406.2250OpenAlexW2962805952MaRDI QIDQ745066FDOQ745066


Authors: Emily Sergel Leven, T. Amdeberhan Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 13 October 2015

Published in: Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Hooks are prominent in representation theory (of symmetric groups) and they play a role in number theory (via cranks associated to Ramanujan's congruences). A partition of a positive integer n has a Young diagram representation. To each cell in the diagram there is an associated statistic called hook length, and if a number t is absent from the diagram then the partition is called a t-core. A partition is an (s,t)-core if it is both an s- and a t-core. Since the work of Anderson on (s,t)-cores, the topic has received a growing attention. This paper expands the discussion to multiple-cores. More precisely, we explore (s,s+1,dots,s+k)-core partitions much in the spirit of a recent paper by Stanley and Zanello. In fact, our results exploit connections between three combinatorial objects: multi-cores, posets and lattice paths (with a novel generalization of Dyck paths). Additional results and conjectures are scattered throughout the paper. For example, one of these statements implies a curious symmetry for twin-prime (s,s+2)-core partitions.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2250




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