A179009 Number of maximally refined partitions of n into distinct parts.

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 1, 3, 2, 3, 5, 7, 2, 5, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 3, 8, 5, 6, 6, 8, 11, 15, 7, 13, 9, 9, 9, 10, 12, 16, 22, 11, 20, 15, 17, 14, 15, 16, 18, 24, 30, 18, 30, 26, 28, 22, 27, 21, 25, 27, 33, 42, 36, 45, 43, 46, 38, 44, 33, 43, 36, 44, 47, 60, 46, 66, 64, 70, 63, 72, 61, 69, 60, 63, 58, 69, 80

Offset

0,6

Comments

Let a_1,a_2,...,a_k be a partition of n into distinct parts. We say that this partition can be refined if one of the summands, say a_i can be replaced with two numbers whose sum is a_i and the resulting partition is a partition into distinct parts. For example, the partition 5+2 can be refined because 5 can be replaced by 4+1 to give 4+2+1. If a partition into distinct parts cannot be refined we say that it is maximally refined.

The value of a(0) is taken to be 1 as is often done when considering partitions (also, the empty partition cannot be refined).

This sequence was suggested by Moshe Shmuel Newman.

Links

Massimo Lauria, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1500 (first 1000 terms by Fausto A. C. Cariboni)

Riccardo Aragona, Lorenzo Campioni, Roberto Civino, and Massimo Lauria, On the maximal part in unrefinable partitions of triangular numbers, arXiv:2111.11084 [math.CO], 2021.

Riccardo Aragona, Roberto Civino, and Norberto Gavioli, A modular idealizer chain and unrefinability of partitions with repeated parts, arXiv:2301.06347 [math.RA], 2023.

Riccardo Aragona, Roberto Civino, Norberto Gavioli and Carlo Maria Scoppola, Unrefinable partitions into distinct parts in a normalizer chain, arXiv:2107.04666 [math.CO], 2021.

Riccardo Aragona, Lorenzo Campioni, Roberto Civino and Massimo Lauria, Verification and generation of unrefinable partitions, arXiv:2112.15096 [math.CO], 2021.

Joerg Arndt, C++ program to compute such partitions.

Example

a(11)=2 because there are two partitions of 11 which are maximally refined, namely 6+4+1 and 5+3+2+1.
From Joerg Arndt, Apr 23 2023: (Start)
The 15 maximally refined partitions of 35 are:
   1:    [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 14 ]
   2:    [ 1 2 3 4 5 7 13 ]
   3:    [ 1 2 3 4 5 8 12 ]
   4:    [ 1 2 3 4 5 9 11 ]
   5:    [ 1 2 3 4 6 7 12 ]
   6:    [ 1 2 3 4 6 8 11 ]
   7:    [ 1 2 3 4 6 9 10 ]
   8:    [ 1 2 3 4 7 8 10 ]
   9:    [ 1 2 3 5 6 7 11 ]
  10:    [ 1 2 3 5 6 8 10 ]
  11:    [ 1 2 3 5 7 8 9 ]
  12:    [ 1 2 4 5 6 7 10 ]
  13:    [ 1 2 4 5 6 8 9 ]
  14:    [ 1 3 4 5 6 7 9 ]
  15:    [ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ]
(End)

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A290267 A240750 A181118 * A112757 A219794 A351469

Adjacent sequences: A179006 A179007 A179008 * A179010 A179011 A179012

Keyword

nonn

Author

David S. Newman, Jan 03 2011

Extensions

More terms from Joerg Arndt, Jan 04 2011

Status

approved