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Record W4406937392 · doi:10.1007/s11139-024-01001-6

Partitions and elementary symmetric polynomials: an experimental approach

2025· article· lv· W4406937392 on OpenAlexaff
Cristina Ballantine, George R. Beck, Mircea Merca

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Ramanujan Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languagelv
FieldMathematics
TopicAdvanced Combinatorial Mathematics
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMathematicsElementary symmetric polynomialPure mathematicsCombinatoricsAlgebra over a fieldOrthogonal polynomialsClassical orthogonal polynomials

Abstract

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Abstract Given a partition $$\lambda $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>λ</mml:mi> </mml:math> , we write $$e_j(\lambda )$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi> <mml:mi>j</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>λ</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> for the $$j^{\text {th}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>j</mml:mi> <mml:mtext>th</mml:mtext> </mml:msup> </mml:math> elementary symmetric polynomial $$e_j$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi> <mml:mi>j</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:math> evaluated at the parts of $$\lambda $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>λ</mml:mi> </mml:math> and $$e_jp_A(n)$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi> <mml:mi>j</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> for the sum of $$e_j(\lambda )$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi> <mml:mi>j</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>λ</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> as $$\lambda $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>λ</mml:mi> </mml:math> ranges over the set of partitions of n with parts in A . For $$e_jp_A(n)$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi> <mml:mi>j</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> , we prove analogs of the classical formula for the partition function, $$p(n)=1/n \sum _{k=0}^{n-1}\sigma _1(n-k)p(k)$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> <mml:mo>/</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mo>∑</mml:mo> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>k</mml:mi> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo>-</mml:mo> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>σ</mml:mi> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo>-</mml:mo> <mml:mi>k</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>k</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> , where $$\sigma _1$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>σ</mml:mi> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:math> is the sum of divisors function. We prove several congruences for $$e_2p_4(n)$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msub> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> <mml:mn>4</mml:mn> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> , the sum of $$e_2$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:math> over the set of partitions of n into four parts. Define the function $$\text {pre}_j(\lambda )$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mtext>pre</mml:mtext> <mml:mi>j</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>λ</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> to be the multiset of monomials in $$e_j(\lambda )$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi>

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.040
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.338
Teacher spread0.296 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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