Maximum entropy and integer partitions
Maximum entropy and integer partitions
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10.5070/c63160420
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2020-12
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Gweneth McKinley;Marcus Michelen;Will Perkins
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Gweneth McKinley;Marcus Michelen;Will Perkins
We derive asymptotic formulas for the number of integer partitions with given sums of $j$th powers of the parts for $j$ belonging to a finite, non-empty set $J \subset \mathbb N$. The method we use is based on the `principle of maximum entropy' of Jaynes. This principle leads to an intuitive variational formula for the asymptotics of the logarithm of the number of constrained partitions as the solution to a convex optimization problem over real-valued functions.