Counting corners in partitions

Aubrey Blecher; Charlotte Brennan; Arnold Knopfmacher; Toufik Mansour

doi:10.1007/s11139-014-9666-4

Counting corners in partitions

Aubrey Blecher, Charlotte Brennan, Arnold Knopfmacher, Toufik Mansour

Department of Mathematics

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Abstract

A partition of a positive integer n is a non-increasing sequence of positive integers whose sum is n. It may be represented by a Ferrers diagram. These diagrams contain corners which are points of degree two. We define corners of types (a,b), (a+b) and (a+,b+), and also define the size of a corner. Via a generating function, we count corners of each type and corners of size $$m$$m. We also find asymptotics for the number of corners as n tends to infinity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	201-224
Number of pages	24
Journal	Ramanujan Journal
Volume	39
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-014-9666-4
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016

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Keywords

Asymptotics
Corners
Generating functions
Partitions

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Algebra and Number Theory

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