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Zap. Nauchn. Sem. POMI, 2023 Volume 525, Pages 161–183 (Mi znsl7375)

Moments of random integer partitions

Yu. V. Yakubovich

Saint Petersburg State University

Abstract: We study the limiting behaviour of the $p$th moment, that is the sum of $p$th powers of parts in a partition of a positive integer $n$ which is taken uniformly among all partitions of $n$, as $n\to\infty$ and $p\in\mathbb{R}$ is fixed. We prove that after an appropriate centring and scaling, for $p\ge 1/2$ ($p\ne 1$) the limit distribution is Gaussian, while for $p<1/2$ the limit is some infinitely divisible distribution, depending on $p$, which we describe explicitly. In particular, for $p=0$ this is the Gumbel distribution, which is well known, and for $p=-1$ the limiting distribution is connected to the Jacobi theta function.

Key words and phrases: random integer partition, uniform measure on integer partitions, moments of integer partition, limit theorem, Jacobi theta distribution.

Received: 25.09.2023



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