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Inspired by Andrews' and Newman's work on the minimal excludant or "mex" of partitions, we define four new classes of minimal excludants for overpartitions and establish relations to certain functions due to Ramanujan., Comment: To appear in the Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society

Motivated by recent research of Krattenthaler and Wang, we propose five new "Borwein-type" conjectures modulo $3$ and two new "Borwein-type" conjectures modulo $5$., Comment: 6 pages. Comments are welcome!

In 1797, Pfaff gave a simple proof of a ${}_3F_2$ hypergeometric series summation formula which was much later reproved by Andrews in 1996. In the same paper, Andrews also proved other well-known hypergeometric identities using Pfaff's method. In this paper, we prove a number of terminating $q$-hypergeometric series-product identities using Pfaff's method thereby providing a detailed account of its wide applicability., Comment: 17 pages. Comments are welcome!

In this paper, we conjecture an extension to Bressoud's 1996 generalization of Borwein's famous 1990 conjecture. We then state a few infinite hierarchies of non-negative $q$-series identities which are interesting examples of our proposed conjecture and Bressoud's generalized conjecture. Finally, using certain positivity-preserving transformations for $q$-binomial coefficients, we prove the non-negativity of the infinite families., Comment: 17 pages, 2 figures. Dedicated to George E. Andrews and Bruce C. Berndt in celebration of their 85th birthdays. Comments are welcome!

In 2009, Berkovich and Garvan introduced a new partition statistic called the GBG-rank modulo $t$ which is a generalization of the well-known BG-rank. In this paper, we use the Littlewood decomposition of partitions to study partitions with bounded largest part and fixed integral value of GBG-rank modulo primes. As a consequence, we obtain new elegant generating function formulas for unrestricted partitions, self-conjugate partitions, and partitions whose parts repeat finite number of times., Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures. Comments are welcome!

The BG-rank BG($\pi$) of an integer partition $\pi$ is defined as $$\text{BG}(\pi) := i-j$$ where $i$ is the number of odd-indexed odd parts and $j$ is the number of even-indexed odd parts of $\pi$. In a recent work, Fu and Tang ask for a direct combinatorial proof of the following identity of Berkovich and Uncu $$B_{2N+\nu}(k,q)=q^{2k^2-k}\left[\begin{matrix}2N+\nu\\N+k\end{matrix}\right]_{q^2}$$ for any integer $k$ and non-negative integer $N$ where $\nu\in \{0,1\}$, $B_N(k,q)$ is the generating function for partitions into distinct parts less than or equal to $N$ with BG-rank equal to $k$ and $\left[\begin{matrix}a+b\\b\end{matrix}\right]_q$ is a Gaussian binomial coefficient. In this paper, we provide a bijective proof of Berkovich and Uncu's identity along the lines of Vandervelde and Fu and Tang's idea., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures. To appear in S\'eminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire

In this paper, we provide proofs of two ${}_5\psi_5$ summation formulas of Bailey using a ${}_5\phi_4$ identity of Carlitz. We show that in the limiting case, the two ${}_5\psi_5$ identities give rise to two ${}_3\psi_3$ summation formulas of Bailey. Finally, we prove the two ${}_3\psi_3$ identities using a technique initially used by Ismail to prove Ramanujan's ${}_1\psi_1$ summation formula and later by Ismail and Askey to prove Bailey's very-well-poised ${}_6\psi_6$ sum., Comment: 9 pages. To appear in the International Journal of Number Theory

In a recent pioneering work, Andrews and Newman defined an extended function $p_{A,a}(n)$ of their minimal excludant or "mex" of a partition function. By considering the special cases $p_{k,k}(n)$ and $p_{2k,k}(n)$, they unearthed connections to the rank and crank of partitions and some restricted partitions. In this paper, we build on their work and obtain more general results associating the extended mex function with the number of partitions of an integer with arbitrary bound on the rank and crank. We also derive a new result expressing the smallest parts function of Andrews as a finite sum of the extended mex function in consideration with a curious coefficient. We also obtain a few restricted partition identities with some reminiscent of shifted partition identities. Finally, we define and explore a new minimal excludant for overpartitions., Comment: 19 pages

In this paper, we first provide an analytic and a bijective proof of a formula stated by Vladeta Jovovic in the OEIS sequence A117989. We also provide a bijective proof of another interesting result stated by him on the same page concerning integer partitions with fixed differences between the largest and smallest parts., Comment: 6 pages