Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Date of Award

5-1-2026

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D. in Mathematics

First Advisor

Ayla Gafni

Second Advisor

Erwin Mina-Diaz

Third Advisor

Thai Hoang Le

School

University of Mississippi

Relational Format

dissertation/thesis

Abstract

This dissertation is a generalization of two results which involve finding approximations of partition functions. The first is by Ayla Gafni in 2016, who found an approximation for the number of ways to partition a number n into k-th powers. The second is by E. M. Wright in 1931, who found an approximation for plane partitions. We look at a generalized partition function pk1,k2(n) that includes both cases and find an approximation for pk1,k2(n).

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