A proof of the Auluck-Chowla-Gupta Conjecture

Let p(n,k) denote the number of partitions of n into exactly k parts. In 1942 Auluck, Chowla and Gupta conjectured that for every n the sequence p(n,1), p(n,2), ..., p(n,n) is unimodal. Szekeres proved this for all sufficiently large n, but with a threshold that was never made explicit. We prove the