Residue class biases in unrestricted partitions, partitions into distinct parts, and overpartitions
Authors:
- Michael J. SchlosserMSMichael J. Schlosser
- Nian Hong ZhouNZNian Hong Zhou
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Abstract
We prove specific biases in the number of occurrences of parts belonging to two different residue classes $a$ and $b$, modulo a fixed non-negative integer $m$, for the sets of unrestricted partitions, partitions into distinct parts, and overpartitions. These biases follow from inequalities for residue-weighted partition functions for the respective sets of partitions. We also establish asymptotic formulas for the numbers of partitions of size $n$ that belong to these sets of partitions and have a symmetric residue bias (i.e., for $1\le a<m/2$ and $b=m-a$), as $n$ tends to infinity.
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