Desalvo–Pak ratio conjecture for the partition function

Let p(n)p(n) denote the number of partitions of nn. Desalvo–Pak's conjecture. For every integer n45n\geq45,

p(n1)p(n)(1+π24n3/2)>p(n)p(n+1).\frac{p(n-1)}{p(n)}\left(1+\frac{\pi}{\sqrt{24}n^{3/2}}\right)>\frac{p(n)}{p(n+1)}.

The coefficient π24\frac{\pi}{\sqrt{24}} is asymptotically best possible, and the conjecture was subsequently proved by Chen, Wang, and Xie.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

William Y. C. Chen and Ken Y. Zheng, “The Log-Behavior of [n]p(n) and [n]p(n)/n”, arXiv:1511.02558 (2015).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.