MacMahon's Conjecture on Symmetric Plane Partitions
Abstract
In 1898, P. A. MacMahon conjectured that the generating function for symmetric plane partitions with at most s rows and each part at most j has an especially simple closed form. An outline of the proof of this conjecture is given here.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- February 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1073/pnas.74.2.426
- Bibcode:
- 1977PNAS...74..426A