Chern–Fu–Tang conjecture on log-concavity of k-colored partitions

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Let p−k(n)p_{-k}(n) denote the number of kk-colored partitions of nn, with p−k(n)=Pn(k)p_{-k}(n)=P_n(k), where P0(x)=1P_0(x)=1 and

Pn(x):=xn∑j=1nσ(j)Pn−j(x),σ(j):=∑d∣jd.P_n(x):=\frac{x}{n}\sum_{j=1}^n\sigma(j)P_{n-j}(x),\qquad \sigma(j):=\sum_{d\mid j}d.

Chern–Fu–Tang conjecture. Let n>m≥1n>m\geq 1 and k≥2k\geq 2. Except for (k,n,m)=(2,6,4)(k,n,m)=(2,6,4),

p−k(n−1)p−k(m+1)≥p−k(n)p−k(m).p_{-k}(n-1)p_{-k}(m+1)\geq p_{-k}(n)p_{-k}(m).

This is a Bessenrodt–Ono-type log-concavity inequality for colored partition numbers. The source does not provide a resolution status for the conjecture.

References

Primary source

Bernhard Heim and Markus Neuhauseer, “Proof of the Bessenrodt–Ono inequality by Induction”, arXiv:2108.00191 (2021).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2011.11056.

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