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    A Phase transition in the distribution of the length of integer partitions
    Ralaivaosaonay, Dimbinaina
    We assign a uniform probability to the set consisting of partitions of a positive integer n such that the multiplicity of each summand is less than a given number d and we study the limiting distribution of the number of summands in a random partition. It is known from a result by Erd˝os and Lehner published in 1941 that the distributions of the length in random restricted (d = 2) and random unrestricted (d n + 1) partitions behave very differently. In this paper we show that as the bound d increases we observe a phase transition in which the distribution goes from the Gaussian distribution of the restricted case to the Gumbel distribution of the unrestricted case.