Partitions weighted by the parity of the crank

Dohoon Choi; Soon Yi Kang; Jeremy Lovejoy

doi:10.1016/j.jcta.2009.02.002

Partitions weighted by the parity of the crank

Dohoon Choi, Soon Yi Kang, Jeremy Lovejoy

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Abstract

The 'crank' is a partition statistic which originally arose to give combinatorial interpretations for Ramanujan's famous partition congruences. In this paper, we establish an asymptotic formula and a family of Ramanujan type congruences satisfied by the number of partitions of n with even crank M_e (n) minus the number of partitions of n with odd crank M_o (n). We also discuss the combinatorial implications of q-series identities involving M_e (n) - M_o (n). Finally, we determine the exact values of M_e (n) - M_o (n) in the case of partitions into distinct parts. These values are at most two, and zero for infinitely many n.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1034-1046
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A
Volume	116
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcta.2009.02.002
Publication status	Published - 2009 Jul
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
✩ The first author was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean government (KRF-2008-331-C00005), the second author was supported by the SRC program of Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant funded by the Korean government (MEST) (R11-2007-035-01002-0), and the third author was supported by an ACI “Jeunes Chercheurs et Jeunes Chercheuses”. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (D. Choi), [email protected] (S.-Y. Kang), [email protected] (J. Lovejoy).

Keywords

Congruences
Crank
Partitions

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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