Distinct-part bound conjecture for the missing-integer parity difference

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Let P(n,m)P(n,m) denote the number of partitions of nn with mm missing integers, and define

Me(n)=k=0n12P(n,2k),Mo(n)=k=1n2P(n,2k1).\mathcal{M}_e(n)=\sum_{k=0}^{\lfloor \frac{n-1}{2} \rfloor}P(n,2k),\qquad \mathcal{M}_o(n)=\sum_{k=1}^{\lfloor \frac{n}{2} \rfloor}P(n,2k-1).

Let q(n)q(n) denote the number of partitions of nn into distinct parts. Distinct-part bound conjecture. For n>10n>10,

Me(n)Mo(n)<q(n).\mathcal{M}_e(n)-\mathcal{M}_o(n)<q(n).

The conjecture gives an upper bound for the parity difference in terms of distinct-part partitions. The source offers no proof or resolution.

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Primary source

Subhash Chand Bhoria, Pramod Eyyunni and Subhrangsu Santra, “On the number of missing integers in partitions”, arXiv:2604.12557 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1911.11038.

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