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arXiv 2002-06-03 DOI 10.1209/epl/i2002-00133-6 0 views

Asymptotics of the number partitioning distribution

Weiss, C. · Holthaus, M.

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The number partitioning problem can be interpreted physically in terms of a thermally isolated non-interacting Bose gas trapped in a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential. We exploit this analogy to characterize, by means of a detour to the Bose gas within the canonical ensemble, the probability distribution for finding a specified number of summands in a randomly chosen partition of an integer n. It is shown that this distribution approaches its asymptotics only for n > 10¹0.

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