Abstract:
We use the quantum statistical approach to estimate the number of restricted plane partitions of an integer n with the number of parts not exceeding some finite N. We use the analogy between this number theory problem and the enumeration of microstates of the ideal two-dimensional Bose gas. The numbers of restricted plane partitions calculated with the conjectured expression agree well with the exact values for n from 10 to 20.
Citation:
A. Rovenchak, “Enumeration of plane partitions with a restricted number of parts”, TMF, 181:2 (2014), 349–357; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 181:2 (2014), 1428–1434