New symmetries for Dyson's rank function
Abstract
At the 1987 Ramanujan Centenary meeting Dyson asked for a coherent group-theoretical structure for Ramanujan's mock theta functions analogous to Hecke's theory of modular forms. Many of Ramanujan's mock theta functions can be written in terms of , where is the two-variable generating function of Dyson's rank function and is a primitive -th root of unity. In his lost notebook Ramanujan gives the -dissection of . This result is related to Dyson's famous rank conjecture which was proved by Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer. In 2016 the first author showed that there is an analogous result for the -dissection of when is any prime greater than , by extending work of Bringmann and Ono, and Ahlgren and Treneer. It was also shown how the group acts on the elements of the -dissection of . We extend this to the group , thus revealing new and surprising symmetries for Dyson's rank function.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2301.08960,
title = {New symmetries for Dyson's rank function},
author = {F. G. Garvan and Rishabh Sarma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.08960},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
51 pages; some typos corrected