Integer partitions and exclusion statistics: limit shapes and the largest parts of Young diagrams

Abstract

We compute the limit shapes of the Young diagrams of the minimal difference p partitions and provide a simple physical interpretation for the limit shapes. We also calculate the asymptotic distribution of the largest part of the Young diagram and show that the scaled distribution has a Gumbel form for all p. This Gumbel statistics for the largest part remains unchanged even for general partitions of the form E=\sum_i n_i i^{1/\nu } with ν>0 where ni is the number of times the part i appears.