Unimodality conjecture for Garvan k-rank functions

Let Nk(m,n)N_k(m,n) denote the number of partitions of nn with Garvan kk-rank mm. Let 1E{\bf 1}_{E} be the indicator of a condition EE, and define

nu(k)=(k+1)+361k=2+61k=3.n_u(k)=(k+1)+36\,{\bf 1}_{k=2}+6\,{\bf 1}_{k=3}.

Garvan k-rank unimodality conjecture. For each integer k2k\ge2 and integer nnu(k)n\ge n_u(k), the sequence

(Nk(m,n))mnk\left(N_k(m,n)\right)_{|m|\le n-k}

is unimodal. The source reports computational verification for k{2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}k\in\{2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10\} and n1000n\le1000, while the preceding theorem only establishes unimodality for sufficiently large nn.

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Nian Hong Zhou, “Eventual log-concavity of k-rank statistics for integer partitions”, arXiv:2110.11174 (2022).

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