Generalization of Dyson's rank and non-Rogers-Ramanujan partitions (Q1340661): Difference between revisions

The rank of a partition is a statistic that splits the set of partitions of \(5n+ 4\) and \(7n+ 5\) into, respectively, five and seven equinumerous sets, thus proving that \(p(5n+ 4)\equiv 0\pmod 5\) and \(p(7n+ 5)\equiv 0\pmod 7\). The crank is a similar statistic that separates the partitions of \(11n+ 7\) into eleven equinumerous sets. The author describes a \(k\)- rank for which the rank is the 2-rank and the crank is the 1-rank, and defines a generalized notion of conjugation, \(k\)-conjugation, which reverses the sign of the value of the \(k\)-rank. The author proves that the number of self-\(2k\)-conjugate partitions of \(n\) is equal to the number of partitions of \(n\) in which no part is divisible by \(2k\) and parts divisible by \(k\) are distnct.