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Random Partitions with Non-negative rth Differences
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Random Partitions with Non-negative rth Differences

Rod Canfield, Sylvie Corteel and Pawel Hitczenko
Advances in applied mathematics, v 27(02-03), pp 298-317
01 Aug 2001
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https://doi.org/10.1006/aama.2001.0736View
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Abstract

Let Pr(n) be the set of partitions of n with non-negative rth differences. Let λ be a partition of an integer n chosen uniformly at random among the set Pr(n). Let d(λ) be a positive rth difference chosen uniformly at random in λ. The aim of this work is to show that for every m≥1, the probability that d(λ)≥m approaches the constant m−1/r as n→∞. This work is a generalization of a result on integer partitions and was motivated by a recent identity from the Omega package of G. E. Andrews et al. (European J. Combin., MacMahon's partition analysis. III. The Omega package). To prove this result we use bijective, asymptotic/analytic, and probabilistic combinatorics.

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