Congruences in ordered pairs of partitions

Dyson defined the rank of a partition (as the first part minus the number of parts) whilst investigating certain congruences in the sequence p−1(n). The rank has been widely studied as have been other statistics, such as the crank. In this paper a birank is defined which relates to ordered pairs of...

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Main Authors: Paul Hammond, Richard Lewis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2004-01-01
Series:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171204311439