Finite-difference moment identities for elementary symmetric partition images

From papers

Let P(n)\mathcal P(n) be the set of partitions of nn, let P[m,n]=i=mnP(i)\mathcal P[m,n]=\biguplus_{i=m}^n\mathcal P(i), and let ImPk[m,n]=i=mnImPk(i)\operatorname{ImP}_k[m,n]=\biguplus_{i=m}^n\operatorname{ImP}_k(i). Let mjm_j denote the jjth moment statistic and let Δ\Delta denote the finite-difference operator. Finite-difference moment conjecture. For n0n\ge0 and k2k\ge2,

Δk1m4(ImPk[n,n+1])=m2(P(n))+m4(P[n,n+1]),Δk1m6(ImPk(n))=m6(P(n))+m2(P(n2))m3(P(n2)),Δk1m6(ImPk[n,n+1])=m3(P(n))+m6(P[n,n+1]),Δk1m9(ImPk[n,n+2])=m3(P(n))+m9(P[n,n+2]),Δk1m10(ImPk[n,n+1])=m5(P(n))+m10(P[n,n+1]),Δk1mp(ImPk(n))=mp(P(n)),\begin{aligned} \Delta^{k-1}m_4(\operatorname{ImP}_k[n,n+1])&=m_2(\mathcal P(n))+m_4(\mathcal P[n,n+1]),\\ \Delta^{k-1}m_6(\operatorname{ImP}_k(n))&=m_6(\mathcal P(n))+m_2(\mathcal P(n-2))-m_3(\mathcal P(n-2)),\\ \Delta^{k-1}m_6(\operatorname{ImP}_k[n,n+1])&=m_3(\mathcal P(n))+m_6(\mathcal P[n,n+1]),\\ \Delta^{k-1}m_9(\operatorname{ImP}_k[n,n+2])&=m_3(\mathcal P(n))+m_9(\mathcal P[n,n+2]),\\ \Delta^{k-1}m_{10}(\operatorname{ImP}_k[n,n+1])&=m_5(\mathcal P(n))+m_{10}(\mathcal P[n,n+1]),\\ \Delta^{k-1}m_p(\operatorname{ImP}_k(n))&=m_p(\mathcal P(n)), \end{aligned}

where the last equality holds for p=1p=1 or pp prime. These identities are proposed as a direction for future work, and the paper gives no resolution.

Progress summary

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Cristina Ballantine, George Beck, Mircea Merca and Bruce Sagan, “Elementary symmetric partitions”, arXiv:2409.11268 (2024).

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.