Injectivity of pairwise products of partition parts

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For a partition λ=(λ1,,λ)\lambda=(\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_\ell), let pre2(λ)\operatorname{pre}_2(\lambda) be the partition whose parts are the products λiλk\lambda_i\lambda_k for 1i<k1\leq i<k\leq\ell. Pairwise-product injectivity conjecture. If λ\lambda and μ\mu are partitions of nn for some n0n\geq0, then

pre2(λ)=pre2(μ)λ=μ.\operatorname{pre}_2(\lambda)=\operatorname{pre}_2(\mu)\quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad\lambda=\mu.

This injectivity would imply the first odd-part dominance inequality above. It is presented as conjectural, with no resolution given in the source.

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Primary source

Cristina Ballantine, George Beck and Mircea Merca, “Partitions and elementary symmetric polynomials – an experimental approach”, arXiv:2408.13346 (2024).

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