The Combinatorics of MacMahon’s Partial Fractions

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Abstract

MacMahon showed that the generating function for partitions into at most k parts can be decomposed into a partial fraction-type sum indexed by the partitions of k. In the present work, a generalization of MacMahon’s result is given, which in turn provides a full combinatorial explanation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTrends in Mathematics
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages719-732
Number of pages14
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

Publication series

NameTrends in Mathematics
ISSN (Print)2297-0215
ISSN (Electronic)2297-024X

Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Mathematics

Keywords

  • Compositions
  • Partition function
  • Partitions
  • Symmetric group

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