Monotonicity conjecture for hook counts in t-regular partitions

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For integers t2t\geq2 and k1k\geq1, let bt,k(n)b_{t,k}(n) denote the number of hooks of length kk in all tt-regular partitions of nn. A tt-regular partition is a partition with no part divisible by tt.

Monotonicity conjecture. Let t3t\geq3 be an integer. Then

bt+1,2(n)bt,2(n),b_{t+1,2}(n)\geq b_{t,2}(n),

for all n0n\geq0.

The conjecture formalizes numerical evidence that the number of hooks of length 22 in tt-regular partitions increases with tt. The source gives no resolution, so its status remains open.

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Primary source

Gurinder Singh and Rupam Barman, “Hook length inequalities for t-regular partitions in the t-aspect”, arXiv:2410.15088 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2006.07704, arXiv:1808.01416.

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