DOAJ Open Access 2012

A phase transition in the distribution of the length of integer partitions

Dimbinaina Ralaivaosaona

Abstrak

We assign a uniform probability to the set consisting of partitions of a positive integer $n$ such that the multiplicity of each summand is less than a given number $d$ and we study the limiting distribution of the number of summands in a random partition. It is known from a result by Erdős and Lehner published in 1941 that the distributions of the length in random restricted $(d=2)$ and random unrestricted $(d \geq n+1)$ partitions behave very differently. In this paper we show that as the bound $d$ increases we observe a phase transition in which the distribution goes from the Gaussian distribution of the restricted case to the Gumbel distribution of the unrestricted case.

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Dimbinaina Ralaivaosaona

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Ralaivaosaona, D. (2012). A phase transition in the distribution of the length of integer partitions. https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.2999

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Informasi Jurnal
Tahun Terbit
2012
Sumber Database
DOAJ
DOI
10.46298/dmtcs.2999
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Open Access ✓