On Some Relations between the Rank and the Crank

Abstract Garvan noted that some “curious” relations hold between the numbers N(r, m; n) and M(r, m; n) when m = 5. Alternative versions of these relations are given, together with some similar relations for the case m = 7. Here, N(r, m; n) and M(r, m; n) denote the number of partitions of n whose ranks (as defined by Dyson), respectively cranks (as defined by Andrews and Garvan), are congruent to r modulo n.