Monotonicity properties for ranks of overpartitions
Monotonicity properties for ranks of overpartitions
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过度划分行列的单调性属性
DOI:
10.1016/j.jnt.2019.08.025
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发表时间:
2020
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0.7
通讯作者:
Zang Wenston J. T.
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作者:
Xiong Huan;Zang Wenston J. T.
The rank of partitions plays an important role in the combinatorial interpretations of several Ramanujan's famous congruence formulas. In 2005 and 2008, the D-rank and M 2-rank of an overpartition were introduced by Lovejoy, respectively. Let N‾(m, n) and N 2‾(m, n) denote the number of overpartitions of n with D-rank m and M 2-rank m, respectively. In 2014, Chan and Mao proposed a conjecture on monotonicity properties of N‾(m, n) and N 2‾(m, n). In this paper, we prove the Chan-Mao monotonicity conjecture. To be specific, we show that for any integer m and nonnegative integer n, N 2‾(m, n)≤ N 2‾(m, n+ 1); and for (m, n)≠(0, 4) with n≠| m|+ 2, we have N‾(m, n)≤ N‾(m, n+ 1). Furthermore, when m increases, we prove that N‾(m, n)≥ N‾(m+ 2, n) and N 2‾(m, n)≥ N 2‾(m+ 2, n) for any m, n≥ 0, which is an analogue of Chan and Mao's result for partitions.