Ballantine–Burson–Craig–Folsom–Wen hook-count conjecture
Let be the total number of -hooks in all partitions of into odd parts, and let be the total number of -hooks in all partitions of into distinct parts. For , one has , and Andrews's inequality gives . Ballantine–Burson–Craig–Folsom–Wen conjecture. For every integer ,
The conjecture reverses Andrews's inequality for every hook length in the asymptotic sense. It was proved for by Ballantine, Burson, Craig, Folsom, and Wen, and the remaining cases were settled by Craig, Dawsey, and Han.
References
Primary source
Aritram Dhar, Byungchan Kim, Eunmi Kim and Ae Ja Yee, “Inequalities for the number of t-hooks in two partition classes arising from sum-product identities”, arXiv:2603.01112 (2026).
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