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It is well known that Ramanujan conjectured congruences modulo powers of 5, 7 and and 11 for the partition function. These were subsequently proved by Watson (1938) and Atkin (1967). In 2009 Choi, Kang, and Lovejoy proved congruences modulo…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Dandan Chen , Rong Chen , Frank Garvan

Recently, Nath and Das investigated congruence properties for the second order mock theta function $B(q)$. In their paper, they asked for analytic proofs of three identities on the second order mock theta functions $A(q)$, $B(q)$ and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Xingyuan Cai , Eric H. Liu , Olivia X. M. Yao

Ramanujan's last letter to Hardy introduced the world to mock theta functions, and the mock theta function identities found in Ramanujan's lost notebook added to their intriguing nature. For example, we find the four tenth-order mock theta…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Eric T. Mortenson , Dilshod Urazov

Andrews and the third author recently studied congruences for certain restricted two-color partitions. They made two conjectures for Ramanujan-type congruences and a vanishing identity for the limiting sequence. In this paper, we settle…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Koustav Banerjee , Kathrin Bringmann , Mohamed El Bachraoui

Sander Zwegers showed that Ramanujan's mock theta functions are $q$-hypergeometric series, whose $q$-expansion coefficients are half of the Fourier coefficients of a non-holomorphic modular form. George Andrews, Henri Cohen, Freeman Dyson,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-14 Yingkun Li , Hieu T. Ngo , Robert C. Rhoades

In his deathbed letter to Hardy, Ramanujan gave a vague definition of a mock modular function: at each root of unity its asymptotics matches the one of a modular form, though a choice of the modular function depends on the root of unity.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-11 Wadim Zudilin

The two partition functions $p_\omega(n)$ and $p_\nu(n)$ were introduced by Andrews, Dixit and Yee, which are related to the third order mock theta functions $\omega(q)$ and $\nu(q)$, respectively. Recently, Andrews and Yee analytically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Frank Z. K. Li , Jane Y. X. Yang

In this paper we consider the first four of the eight identities between the tenth order mock theta functions, found in Ramanujan's lost notebook. These were originally proved by Choi. Here we give an alternative (much shorter) proof.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Sander Zwegers

In 1994, Kac and Wakimoto found the denominator identity for classical affine Lie superalgebras, generalizing that for affine Lie algebras. As an application, they obtained power series identities for some powers of $\triangle(q)$, where…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Toshiki Matsusaka , Miyu Suzuki

Some of the consequences of Eyvind Wichmann's contributions to modular theory and the QFT phase-space structure are presented. In order to show the power of those ideas in contemporary problems, I selected the issue of algebraic holography…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Bert Schroer

The elliptic genera of the K3 surfaces, both compact and non-compact cases, are studied by using the theory of mock theta functions. We decompose the elliptic genus in terms of the N=4 superconformal characters at level-1, and present an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-12-01 Tohru Eguchi , Kazuhiro Hikami

The generalization of new mock theta functions of Andrews and Bringmann et al are given. Further we have given the expansion of these bilateral generalized new mock theta functions as 2 phi 1 series by Slaters transformation. After that we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Swayamprabha Tiwari , Sameena Saba

We consider a mock modular form $M_{\Delta}(\tau)$ that arises naturally from Ramanujan's Delta-function. It is a weight $-10$ harmonic Maass form whose nonholomorphic part is the "period integral function'' of $\Delta(\tau)$. The Hecke…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Kevin Gomez , Ken Ono

Using holomorphic projection, we work out a parametrization for all relations of products (resp. Rankin-Cohen brackets) of weight $\tfrac 32$ mock modular forms with holomorphic shadow and weight $\tfrac 12$ modular forms in the spirit of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Michael H. Mertens

It is well known that Ramanujan conjectured congruences modulo powers of $5$, $7$ and and $11$ for the partition function. These were subsequently proved by Watson (1938) and Atkin (1967). In 2009 Choi, Kang, and Lovejoy proved congruences…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Dandan Chen , Rong Chen , Frank Garvan

We extend the recently developed theory of Roehrig and Zwegers on indefinite theta functions to prove certain power series are modular forms. As a consequence, we obtain several power series identities for powers of the generating function…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Toshiki Matsusaka , Miyu Suzuki

In the explicit formula for the signed mock theta functions $\Phi^{(-)[m,s]}$ obtained from the coroot lattice of $D(2,1;a)$, functions with indefinite quadratic forms naturally take place. We compute their modular transformation properties…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Minoru Wakimoto

Using results from Ramanujan's lost notebook, Zudilin recently gave an insightful proof of a radial limit result of Folsom, Ono, and Rhoades for mock theta functions. Here we see that the author's previous work on the dual nature of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Eric Mortenson

We give simple proofs of Hecke-Rogers indefinite binary theta series identities for the two Ramanujan fifth order mock theta functions $\chi_0(q)$ and $\chi_1(q)$ and all three of Ramanujan's seventh order mock theta functions. We find that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Frank Garvan

We introduce theta-functions of VOA-modules and show that the space spanned by them has a modular invariance property.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masahiko Miyamoto