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New symmetries for Dyson's rank function

Number Theory 2023-08-22 v2

Abstract

At the 1987 Ramanujan Centenary meeting Dyson asked for a coherent group-theoretical structure for Ramanujan's mock theta functions analogous to Hecke's theory of modular forms. Many of Ramanujan's mock theta functions can be written in terms of R(ζp,q)R(\zeta_p,q), where R(z,q)R(z,q) is the two-variable generating function of Dyson's rank function and ζp\zeta_p is a primitive pp-th root of unity. In his lost notebook Ramanujan gives the 55-dissection of R(ζ5,q)R(\zeta_5,q). This result is related to Dyson's famous rank conjecture which was proved by Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer. In 2016 the first author showed that there is an analogous result for the pp-dissection of R(ζp,q)R(\zeta_p,q) when pp is any prime greater than 33, by extending work of Bringmann and Ono, and Ahlgren and Treneer. It was also shown how the group Γ1(p)\Gamma_1(p) acts on the elements of the pp-dissection of R(ζp,q)R(\zeta_p,q). We extend this to the group Γ0(p)\Gamma_0(p), thus revealing new and surprising symmetries for Dyson's rank function.

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@article{arxiv.2301.08960,
  title  = {New symmetries for Dyson's rank function},
  author = {F. G. Garvan and Rishabh Sarma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.08960},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

51 pages; some typos corrected

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