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PROOF OF A CONJECTURE OF BANERJEE AND DASTIDAR ON ODD CRANK

Part of: Combinatorics Additive number theory; partitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2023

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DAZHAO TANG*
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School of Mathematical Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, PR China
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Abstract

Recently, when studying intricate connections between Ramanujan’s theta functions and a class of partition functions, Banerjee and Dastidar [‘Ramanujan’s theta functions and parity of parts and cranks of partitions’, Ann. Comb., to appear] studied some arithmetic properties for $c_o(n)$, the number of partitions of n with odd crank. They conjectured a congruence modulo $4$ satisfied by $c_o(n)$. We confirm the conjecture and evaluate $c_o(4n)$ modulo $8$ by dissecting some q-series into even powers. Moreover, we give a conjecture on the density of divisibility of odd cranks modulo 4, 8 and 16.

Keywords

partitionscongruencesodd crankJacobi’s identityJacobi’s triple product identity

MSC classification

Primary: 11P83: Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions
Secondary: 05A17: Partitions of integers
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 108 , Issue 3 , December 2023 , pp. 406 - 411
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Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12201093), the Natural Science Foundation Project of Chongqing CSTB (No. CSTB2022NSCQ–MSX0387), the Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (No. KJQN202200509) and the Doctoral start-up research grant (No. 21XLB038) of Chongqing Normal University.

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