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Dyson's crank and unimodal compositions

Combinatorics 2022-03-07 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

The crank is a partition statistic requested by Dyson in 1944 in order to combinatorially prove a Ramanujan congruence of Euler's partition function p(n)p(n). In this paper, we provide connections between Dyson's crank and unimodal compositions. Somewhat unrelated, we give a combinatorial proof of a new truncated Euler pentagonal number theorem due to Xia and Zhao.

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@article{arxiv.2203.02061,
  title  = {Dyson's crank and unimodal compositions},
  author = {Cristina Ballantine and Mircea Merca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.02061},
  year   = {2022}
}

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14 pages

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