Beck's conjecture on parts in odd and distinct partitions
Let be a nonnegative integer. Count the total number of parts across all partitions of whose parts are odd, and separately the total number of parts across all partitions of into distinct parts. A partition has exactly one even part when one even integer occurs as a part, possibly with repetition, and no other even integer occurs. Beck's conjecture. The excess of the first total over the second equals the number of partitions of with exactly one even part, possibly repeated. This conjecture relates the partition families in Euler's identity and refines the equality of their numbers by comparing their total numbers of parts; the supplied source does not indicate whether it has been resolved.
References
Primary source
Cristina Ballantine and Amanda Folsom, “On the number of parts in all partitions enumerated by the Rogers-Ramanujan identities”, arXiv:2303.03330 (2023).
Additional references
5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2109.00609, arXiv:2005.03619, arXiv:1801.06815, arXiv:1705.10700.
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