A study of the crank function in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook

In this note, we shall give a brief survey of the results that are found in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook related to cranks. Recent work by B. C. Berndt, H. H. Chan, S. H. Chan and W. -C. Liaw have shown conclusively that cranks was the last mathematical object that Ramanujan studied. We shall closely follow the work of Berndt, Chan, Chan and Liaw and give a brief description of their work.Comment: 12 pages, version 3, to appea

Some Smallest Parts Functions from Variations of Bailey's Lemma

We construct new smallest parts partition functions and smallest parts crank functions by considering variations of Bailey's Lemma and conjugate Bailey pairs. The functions we introduce satisfy simple linear congruences modulo $3$ and $5$. We introduce and give identities for two four variable $q$-hypergeometric functions; these functions specialize to some of our new spt-crank-type functions as well as many known spt-crank-type functions