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Ramanujan and coefficients of meromorphic modular forms

Number Theory 2016-03-24 v1

Abstract

The study of Fourier coefficients of meromorphic modular forms dates back to Ramanujan, who, together with Hardy, studied the reciprocal of the weight 6 Eisenstein series. Ramanujan conjectured a number of further identities for other meromorphic modular forms and quasi-modular forms which were subsequently established by Berndt, Bialek, and Yee. In this paper, we place these identities into the context of a larger family by making use of Poincar\'e series introduced by Petersson and a new family of Poincar\'e series which we construct here and which are of independent interest. In addition we establish a number of new explicit identities. In particular, we give the first examples of Fourier expansions for meromorphic modular form with third-order poles and quasi-meromorphic modular forms with second-order poles.

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@article{arxiv.1603.07079,
  title  = {Ramanujan and coefficients of meromorphic modular forms},
  author = {Kathrin Bringmann and Ben Kane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07079},
  year   = {2016}
}
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