Singh and Barman's hook length bias conjecture for t-regular partitions

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Let bt,k(n)b_{t,k}(n) denote the number of hooks of length kk across all tt-regular partitions of nn. Singh and Barman's conjecture. For every integer t≥3t\geq 3 and every n≥0n\geq 0,

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

The conjecture compares the total number of 22-hooks in (t+1)(t+1)-regular and tt-regular partitions. The paper proves this inequality, so the conjecture is resolved.

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Hongshu Lin and Wenston J. T. Zang, “Proof of Singh and Barman's conjecture on hook length biases”, arXiv:2510.19185 (2025).

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