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A Refinement of the Crank-Mex Theorem

Combinatorics 2025-08-26 v1

Abstract

It is proved that the number of partitions of n with odd mex and k parts that aren't ones equals the number of partitions of n with nonnegative crank and k parts that aren't ones..

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@article{arxiv.2508.17491,
  title  = {A Refinement of the Crank-Mex Theorem},
  author = {George E Andrews and Moshe Newman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.17491},
  year   = {2025}
}
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