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On a conjecture about prime-detecting quasimodular forms

Number Theory 2025-07-10 v2

Abstract

Motivated by weighted partition of nn that vanish if and only if nn is a prime, Craig, van Ittersum, and Ono conjecture a classification of quasimodular forms which detect primes in the sense that the nn-th Fourier coefficient vanishes if and only if nn is a prime. In this paper, we prove this conjecture by showing that Fourier coefficients of quasimodular cusp forms exhibit infinitely many sign changes.

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@article{arxiv.2507.00147,
  title  = {On a conjecture about prime-detecting quasimodular forms},
  author = {Ben Kane and Krishnarjun Krishnamoorthy and Yuk-Kam Lau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.00147},
  year   = {2025}
}
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