Monotonicity conjecture for hook counts in t-regular partitions
For integers and , let denote the number of hooks of length in all -regular partitions of . A -regular partition is a partition with no part divisible by .
Monotonicity conjecture. Let be an integer. Then
for all .
The conjecture formalizes numerical evidence that the number of hooks of length in -regular partitions increases with . The source gives no resolution, so its status remains open.
References
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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