A partition whose conjugate partition is equivalent to itself. The Ferrers
diagrams corresponding to the self-conjugate partitions for are illustrated above. The numbers of self-conjugate
partitions of ,
2, ... are 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 7, ... (OEIS
A000700).
The number of self-conjugate partitions of is equal to the number of partitions of into distinct odd parts, and has generating
function
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