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When is the Bloch-Okounkov q-bracket modular?

Number Theory 2020-11-10 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We obtain a condition describing when the quasimodular forms given by the Bloch-Okounkov theorem as qq-brackets of certain functions on partitions are actually modular. This condition involves the kernel of an operator {\Delta}. We describe an explicit basis for this kernel, which is very similar to the space of classical harmonic polynomials.

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@article{arxiv.1810.06987,
  title  = {When is the Bloch-Okounkov q-bracket modular?},
  author = {Jan-Willem M. van Ittersum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06987},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

12 pages; corrected typos

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