Proof of the Andrews-Dyson-Rhoades conjecture on the spt-crank

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2014.10.017MaRDI QIDQ481675zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors William Y. C. Chen, Wenston J. T. Zang, Kathy Q. Ji

Publication date 12 December 2014

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2116

zbMATH Keywords

crankrankAndrews' spt-functioncrank momentrank momentspt-crank

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Analytic theory of partitions (11P82) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83)

Abstract: The notion of the spt-crank of a vector partition, or an $S$-partition, was introduced by Andrews, Garvan and Liang. Let $N_S(m,n)$ denote the number of $S$-partitions of $n$ with spt-crank $m$. Andrews, Dyson and Rhoades conjectured that ${N_S(m,n)}_m$ is unimodal for any $n$, and they showed that this conjecture is equivalent to an inequality between the rank and the crank of ordinary partitions. They obtained an asymptotic formula for the difference between the rank and the crank of ordinary partitions, which implies $N_S(m,n)geq{N}_S(m+1,n)$ for sufficiently large $n$ and fixed $m$. In this paper, we introduce a representation of an ordinary partition, called the $m$-Durfee rectangle symbol, which is a rectangular generalization of the Durfee symbol introduced by Andrews. We give a proof of the conjecture of Andrews, Dyson and Rhoades by considering two cases. For $mgeq1$, we construct an injection from the set of ordinary partitions of $n$ such that $m$ appears in the rank-set to the set of ordinary partitions of $n$ with rank not less than $-m$. The case for $m=0$ requires five more injections. We also show that this conjecture implies an inequality between the positive rank and crank moments obtained by Andrews, Chan and Kim.

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