[seqfan] Re: Seeking proof of a claim in the comments for A000009

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Tue Sep 28 19:38:26 CEST 2021


Certainly put the proof right after the claim.

Best regards
Neil

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On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 1:20 PM Allan Wechsler <acwacw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just got around to looking at this. I'm convinced.
>
> Jack, maybe you could add this as a comment? It would make for smoother
> reading if the proof were next to the claim; on the other hand comments are
> mostly in chronological order. I don't know if OEIS has an editorial policy
> about that.
>
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 10:43 AM Jack Grahl <jack.grahl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think there is a bijection between 'gapless' partitions and distinct
> > partitions which is just given by reflecting the partition diagram.
> >
> > Eg
> > 4,3,2,2,1, a partition without gaps
> > ****
> > ***
> > **
> > **
> > *
> >
> > maps to
> > 5,4,2,1, a distinct partition
> > *****
> > ****
> > **
> > *
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, 14:34 Allan Wechsler, <acwacw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In the comments for https://oeis.org/A000009, Jon Perry claims:
> > >
> > > "Number of partitions of n where if k is the largest part, all parts
> 1..k
> > > are present."
> > >
> > > I wrote some code and verified that this is true, and it's *plausible*,
> > but
> > > does anybody have a proof? It would suffice to put these "gapless"
> > > partitions into correspondence with either partitions into odd parts,
> or
> > > partitions with distinct parts.
> > >
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