Dyson's crank limiting-shape conjecture

Let M(m,n)M(m,n) denote the number of partitions of nn with crank mm, where the crank of a partition is the largest part if it has no ones, and otherwise is the number of parts strictly larger than its number of ones minus its number of ones. Let p(n)p(n) denote the number of partitions of nn, and set

β:=π6n.\beta:=\frac{\pi}{\sqrt{6n}}.

Dyson's crank limiting-shape conjecture. As nn\to\infty,

M(m,n)14βsech2(12βm)p(n).M(m,n)\sim \frac14\beta\,\operatorname{sech}^2\left(\frac12\beta m\right)p(n).

The conjecture describes the limiting shape of the crank generating function and was solved in the paper, although the supplied parser metadata does not give a resolution status beyond the paper's assertion that it solves Dyson's conjecture.

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Kathrin Bringmann and Jehanne Dousse, “On Dyson's crank conjecture and the uniform asymptotic behavior of certain inverse theta functions”, arXiv:1311.6089 (2014).

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