Hou–Jagadeesan maximal partition-rank product conjecture modulo 2

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For a partition λ=(λ1,…,λk)\lambda=(\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_k), define

N(r,t;λ):=∏j=1kN(r,t;λj).N(r,t;\lambda):=\prod_{j=1}^{k}N(r,t;\lambda_j).

Let P(n)P(n) be the set of partitions of nn, and define

maxN⁡(r,t;n):=max⁡{N(r,t;λ):λ∈P(n)}.\operatorname{maxN}(r,t;n):=\max\bigl\{N(r,t;\lambda):\lambda\in P(n)\bigr\}.

Hou–Jagadeesan's maximal-value conjecture. The following are true:

  1. If n≥5n\geq 5, then
maxN⁡(0,2;n)={3n/3n≡0(mod3),11⋅3(n−7)/3n≡1(mod3),5⋅3(n−5)/3n≡2(mod3),\operatorname{maxN}(0,2;n)= \begin{cases} 3^{n/3} & n\equiv 0\pmod{3},\\ 11\cdot 3^{(n-7)/3} & n\equiv 1\pmod{3},\\ 5\cdot 3^{(n-5)/3} & n\equiv 2\pmod{3}, \end{cases}

and the maximum is attained at the unique partitions (3,3,…,3)(3,3,\ldots,3), (3,3,…,7)(3,3,\ldots,7), and (3,3,…,5)(3,3,\ldots,5) in the respective congruence classes modulo 33. If n≥8n\geq 8, then

maxN⁡(1,2;n)={2n/2n≡0(mod2),12⋅2(n−9)/2n≡1(mod2),\operatorname{maxN}(1,2;n)= \begin{cases} 2^{n/2} & n\equiv 0\pmod{2},\\ 12\cdot 2^{(n-9)/2} & n\equiv 1\pmod{2}, \end{cases}

and the maximum is attained by (2,2,…,2)(2,2,\ldots,2) when nn is even and (2,2,…,9)(2,2,\ldots,9) when nn is odd, up to any number of substitutions (2,2)→(4)(2,2)\to(4) and (2,2,2)→(6)(2,2,2)\to(6). The source presents this as a conjecture of Hou and Jagadeesan, without supplying a resolution in the provided text.

References

Primary source

Kevin Gomez and Eric Zhu, “Bounds for Coefficients of the f(q) Mock Theta Function and Applications to Partition Ranks”, arXiv:2008.08253 (2021).

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