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Mock theta double sums

Number Theory 2021-02-04 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove a general result on Bailey pairs and show that two Bailey pairs of Bringmann and Kane are special cases. We also show how to use a change of base formula to pass from the pairs of Bringmann and Kane to pairs used by Andrews in his study of Ramanujan's seventh order mock theta functions. We derive several more Bailey pairs of a similar type and use these to construct a number of new q-hypergeometric double sums which are mock theta functions. Finally, we prove identities between some of these mock theta double sums and classical mock theta functions.

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@article{arxiv.1502.00387,
  title  = {Mock theta double sums},
  author = {Jeremy Lovejoy and Robert Osburn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.00387},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

26 pages, added Section 3, to appear in Glasgow Mathematical Journal

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