Average size of a self-conjugate $(s,t)$-core partition

By William Y. C. Chen, Harry H. Y. Huang, Larry X. W. Wang. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2014

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Armstrong, Hanusa and Jones conjectured that if $s,t$ are coprime integers, then the average size of an $(s,t)$-core partition and the average size of a self-conjugate $(s,t)$-core partition are both equal to $\frac{(s+t+1)(s-1)(t-1)}{24}$. Stanley and Zanello showed that the average size of an $(s,s+1)$-core partition equals $\binom{s+1}{3}/2$. Based on a bijection of Ford, Mai and Sze between self-conjugate $(s,t)$-core partitions and lattice paths in $\lfloor \frac{s}{2} \rfloor\times \lfloor \frac{t}{2}\rfloor$ rectangle, we obtain the average size of a self-conjugate $(s,t)$-core partition as conjectured by Armstrong, Hanusa and Jones.

Subfields: Algebra and Number Theory, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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