%0 Journal Article %T BG-ranks and 2-cores %A William Y. C. Chen %A Kathy Q. Ji %A Herbert S. Wilf %J Mathematics %D 2006 %I arXiv %X We find the number of partitions of $n$ whose BG-rank is $j$, in terms of $pp(n)$, the number of pairs of partitions whose total number of cells is $n$, giving both bijective and generating function proofs. Next we find congruences mod 5 for $pp(n)$, and then we use these to give a new proof of a refined system of congruences for $p(n)$ that was found by Berkovich and Garvan. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605474v2