Ballantine–Beck–Merca injectivity conjecture for elementary symmetric partitions
Ballantine–Beck–Merca injectivity conjecture for elementary symmetric partitions
Let be a positive integer. A partition of is a weakly decreasing sequence of positive integers with size and length . For , define to be the partition whose parts are the products of all -element subcollections of the parts of . Ballantine–Beck–Merca's injectivity conjecture. For , the function is injective on the set of partitions of size and length . This conjecture is false: the case is solved, while the case has been disproved, and the present paper disproves the claim for when .
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Primary source
Vixail Hadelyn, Harper Niergarth, Weiyou Li and Wenhui Li, “Counterexamples regarding elementary symmetric partitions”, arXiv:2606.00420 (2026).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2604.17424.
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