On partitions with $k$ corners not containing the staircase with one more corner

We give three proofs of the following result conjectured by Carriegos, De Castro-Garc\'ıa and Muñoz Castañeda in their work on enumeration of control systems: when $\binom{k+1}{2} \le n < \binom{k+2}{2}$, there are as many partitions of $n$ with $k$ corners as pairs of partitions $(α, β)$ such that $\binom{k+1}{2} + |α| + |β| = n$.

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