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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..

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 George E Andrews , Moshe Newman

Recent works of Andrews--Newman and Hopkins--Sellers unveil an interesting relation between two partition statistics, the crank and the mex. They state that, for a positive integer $n$, there are as many partitions of $n$ with non-negative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Isaac Konan

In a recent pioneering work, Andrews and Newman defined an extended function $p_{A,a}(n)$ of their minimal excludant or "mex" of a partition function. By considering the special cases $p_{k,k}(n)$ and $p_{2k,k}(n)$, they unearthed…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Aritram Dhar , Avi Mukhopadhyay , Rishabh Sarma

Andrews and Newman have recently introduced the notion of the mex of a partition, the smallest positive integer that is not a part. The concept has been used since at least 2011, though, with connections to Frobenius symbols. Recently the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Brian Hopkins , James A. Sellers , Dennis Stanton

In the preceding decade, Andrews and Newman resurrected the concept of a `minimal excludant' of a partition ($mex$, for short), namely, the least positive missing integer in a partition. Subsequently, several authors have not only studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Subhash Chand Bhoria , Pramod Eyyunni , Subhrangsu Santra

Several authors have recently considered the smallest positive part missing from an integer partition, known as the minimum excludant or mex. In this work, we revisit and extend connections between Dyson's crank statistics, the mex, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Brian Hopkins , James A. Sellers , Ae Ja Yee

Andrews and Newman introduced the minimal excludant or ``$mex$'' function for an integer partition $\pi$ of a positive integer $n$, $mex(\pi)$, as the smallest positive integer that is not a part of $\pi$. They defined $\sigma mex(n)$ to be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Chiranjit Ray

In this article, we refine a result of Andrews and Newman, that is, the sum of minimal excludants over all the partitions of a number $n$ equals the number of partitions of $n$ into distinct parts with two colors. As a consequence, we find…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Nayandeep Deka Baruah , Subhash Chand Bhoria , Pramod Eyyunni , Bibekananda Maji

The minimal excludant, or "mex" function, on a set $S$ of positive integers is the least positive integer not in $S$. In a recent paper, Andrews and Newman extended the mex-function to integer partitions and found numerous surprising…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Rupam Barman , Ajit Singh

Let $N(\leq m,n)$ denote the number of partitions of $n$ with rank not greater than $m$, and let $M(\leq m,n)$ denote the number of partitions of $n$ with crank not greater than $m$. Bringmann and Mahlburg observed that $N(\leq m,n)\leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-05 William Y. C. Chen , Kathy Q. Ji , Wenston J. T. Zang

For a positive integer $r$, George Andrews proved that the set of partitions of $n$ in which odd multiplicities are at least $2r + 1$ is equinumerous with the set of partitions of $n$ in which odd parts are congruent to $2r + 1$ modulo $4r…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Darlison Nyirenda

The minimal excludant of a partition $\lambda$, $\rm{mex}(\lambda)$, is the smallest positive integer that is not a part of $\lambda$. For a positive integer $n$, $ \sigma\, \rm{mex}(n)$ denotes the sum of the minimal excludants of all…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Cristina Ballantine , Mircea Merca

Let $N(m,n)$ denote the number of partitions of $n$ with rank $m$, and let $M(m,n)$ denote the number of partitions of $n$ with crank $m$. Chan and Mao proved that for any nonnegative integers $m$ and $n$, $N(m,n)\geq N(m+2,n)$ and for any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Wenston J. T. Zang , Helen W. J. Zhang

Euler's classical identity states that the number of partitions of an integer into odd parts and distinct parts are equinumerous. Franklin gave a generalization by considering partitions with exactly $j$ different multiples of $r$, for a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Subhash Chand Bhoria , Pramod Eyyunni , Bibekananda Maji

In this paper, we investigate the arithmetic properties of the difference between the number of partitions of a positive integer $n$ with even crank and those with odd crank, denoted $C(n)=c_e(n)-c_o(n)$. Inspired by Ramanujan's classical…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Tewodros Amdeberhan , Mircea Merca

A partition statistic ` crank' gives combinatorial interpretations for Ramanujan's famous partition congruences. In this paper, we establish an asymptotic formula, Ramanujan type congruences, and q-series identities that the number of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dohoon Choi , Soon-Yi Kang , Jeremy Lovejoy

In a recent paper, Andrews and Newman extended the mex-function to integer partitions and proved many partition identities connected with these functions. In this paper, we present parity considerations of one of the families of functions…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Robson da Silva , James A. Sellers

We prove three variations of recent results due to Andrews on congruences for $NT(m,k,n)$, the total number of parts in the partitions of $n$ with rank congruent to $m$ modulo $k$. We also conjecture new congruences and relations for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Song Heng Chan , Renrong Mao , Robert Osburn

In this paper we refine a weighted partition identity of Alladi. We write explicit formulas of generating functions for the number of partitions grouped with respect to a partition statistic other than the norm. We tie our weighted results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-01 Ali Kemal Uncu

Noting a curious link between Andrews' even-odd crank and the Stanley rank, we adopt a combinatorial approach building on the map of conjugation and continue the study of integer partitions with parts separated by parity. Our motivation is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Shishuo Fu , Dazhao Tang
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