Kang and Park's modified Alder conjecture

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Let qd(a)(n)q_d^{(a)}(n) count partitions of nn into parts at least aa whose parts differ by at least dd, and let Qd(2,)(n)Q_d^{(2,-)}(n) count partitions of nn into parts congruent to 727 2 modulo d+3d+3, excluding the part d+1d+1. Define

Δd(2,)(n):=qd(2)(n)Qd(2,)(n).\Delta_d^{(2,-)}(n):=q_d^{(2)}(n)-Q_d^{(2,-)}(n).

Kang and Park's conjecture. For all d,n1d,n\geq 1,

Δd(2,)(n)0.\Delta_d^{(2,-)}(n)\geq 0.

Kang and Park proved the conjecture when d=2d=2 or d=2s2d=2^s-2 for any positive integer s5s\geq 5, and for positive even nn. The source paper proves it for d62d\geq 62 and all n1n\geq 1; the cases d=1d=1 and 3d613\leq d\leq 61 remain unresolved in the source.

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Adriana L. Duncan, Simran Khunger, Holly Swisher and Ryan Tamura, “Generalizations of Alder's Conjecture via a Conjecture of Kang and Park”, arXiv:2010.08646 (2020).

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