OEIS formulas for statistics of image-partition sets

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For n0n\ge0, let χ(S)\chi(\mathcal S) be the number of distinct parts occurring in a set of partitions S\mathcal S, and let τ(S)\tau(\mathcal S) count parts with multiplicity. Let ImPk(n)\operatorname{ImP}_k(n) and ImBk(n)\operatorname{ImB}_k(n) denote the corresponding image sets. OEIS-statistics conjecture. For n0n\ge0,

χ(ImP2(n))=A227800(n+1),χ(ImB2(n))=A126236(n),χ(ImP3(n))=1+A213213(n),τ(ImP2(n))=A258472(n).\begin{aligned} \chi(\operatorname{ImP}_2(n))&=A227800(n+1),\\ \chi(\operatorname{ImB}_2(n))&=A126236(n),\\ \chi(\operatorname{ImP}_3(n))&=1+A213213(n),\\ \tau(\operatorname{ImP}_2(n))&=A258472(n). \end{aligned}

These identities connect the statistics to named OEIS sequences; the paper supplies no resolution.

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

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