A crank for bipartitions with designated summands

Abstract: Andrews, Lewis and Lovejoy introduced the partition function

P D (n)

as the number of partitions of

n

with designated summands. A bipartition of

n

is an ordered pair of partitions

(p i_{1}, p i_{2})

with the sum of all of the parts being

n

. In this paper, we introduce a generalized crank named the

p d

-crank for bipartitions with designated summands and give some inequalities for the

p d

-crank of bipartitions with designated summands modulo 2 and 3. We also define the

p d

-crank moments weighted by the parity of

p d

-cranks

m u_{2 k, b d} (- 1, n)

and show the positivity of

(- 1)^{n} m u_{2 k, b d} (- 1, n)

. Let

M_{b d} (m, n)

denote the number of bipartitions of

n

with designated summands with

p d

-crank

m

. We prove a monotonicity property of

p d

-cranks of bipartitions with designated summands and find that the sequence

{M_{b d} (m, n)}_{| m | l e q n}

is unimodal for

n o t = 1, 5, 7

.

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