Multiplicative partition functions for reverse plane partitions derived from an integrable dynamical system

Abstract

A close connection of reverse plane partitions with an integrable dynamical system called the discrete two-dimensional (2D) Toda molecule is clarified. It is shown that a multiplicative partition function for reverse plane partition of arbitrary shape with bounded parts can be obtained from each non-vanishing solution to the discrete 2D Toda molecule. As an example a partition function which generalizes MacMahon's triple product formula as well as Gansner's multi-trace generating function is derived from a specific solution to the dynamical system.