Sorry if the question is trivial - are there closed form expressions or good approximations for the sum of a symmetric function taken over all integer partitions (into given number of parts) of a number?
More precisely, I'm interested in: $$ S(n,k) = \sum_{a1+ \cdots +a_k = n, \ \ a_i \geq 1} \phi_k(a_1,\dots,a_k) $$
where $\phi_k = \prod_i a_i^p$, e.g. for $p=-2$.
I realize that I can bound this (using AM-GM ineq.) by replacing all terms by the most (un)balanced partition, but this seems quite weak as a bound.