The multipartition equidistribution conjecture

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For each positive integer tt, let pt(n)p_t(n) be the number of tt-multipartitions of nn, defined by

n=0pt(n)qn=1i=1(1qi)t.\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}p_t(n)q^n=\frac{1}{\prod_{i=1}^{\infty}(1-q^i)^t}.

Let δt\delta_t, if it exists, be the density of integers nn for which pt(n)p_t(n) is odd:

δt=limx#{nx:pt(n) is odd}x.\delta_t=\lim_{x\rightarrow\infty}\frac{\#\{n\leq x:p_t(n)\text{ is odd}\}}{x}.

Multipartition equidistribution conjecture. The density δt\delta_t exists and equals 1/21/2 for every odd positive integer tt. Equivalently, if t=2kt0t=2^k t_0 with t01t_0\geq 1 odd, then δt\delta_t exists and equals 2k12^{-k-1}.

This extends the partition-function conjecture from t=1t=1 to multipartition functions and predicts equidistribution modulo 22 in the odd-tt case. The source presents the claim as conjectural and notes that even positivity or existence of these densities is beyond current methods.

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Samuel D. Judge, William J. Keith and Fabrizio Zanello, “On the density of the odd values of the partition function”, arXiv:1511.05531 (2017).

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