Tenner's iterative Glaisher bijection conjecture for noncoprime regular and distinct partitions

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Let ss and tt be positive integers that are not coprime, and let ϕm\phi_m denote Glaisher's involution with modulus mm. An ss-regular partition has no parts divisible by ss, and a tt-distinct partition has no part appearing tt or more times. Likewise, define ss-distinct and tt-regular partitions analogously.

Tenner's conjecture. Iteration of the map ϕsϕt\phi_s\phi_t suffices to produce a bijection: for every ss-regular, tt-distinct partition λ\lambda, there exists an integer ℓ\ell depending on λ\lambda such that (ϕsϕt)ℓ(λ)(\phi_s\phi_t)^\ell(\lambda) is the unique ss-distinct, tt-regular partition in its orbit, and no intervening (ϕsϕt)k(λ)(\phi_s\phi_t)^k(\lambda) is ss-regular and tt-distinct.

For coprime ss and tt, a single application of the preceding map gives the corresponding bijection; this conjecture proposes that repeated application works when ss and tt are not coprime.

References

Primary source

William J. Keith, “Partitions into parts simultaneously regular, distinct, and/or flat”, arXiv:1911.04755 (2019).

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