On cranks of partitions modulo 12 and 16 (Q6060209)

This paper determines generating functions for the number of partitions for which the Andrews-Garvan-Dyson crank satisfies a fixed congruence modulo \(12\) or \(16\). Specifically, letting \(M(t,m,n)\) be the number of partitions of \(n\) for which the crank is congruent to \(t\) modulo \(m\), an explicit expression is derived for each generating function of the form \[ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} M(t,12,n) q^n, \] where \(0 \leq t \leq 6\) (due to the symmetry property \(M(t,m, n) = M(-t,m, n)\), this covers all residue classes), as well as each generating function of the form \[ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} M(t,16,n) q^n, \] where \(0 \leq t \leq 8\).