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Rank Generating Functions as Weakly Holomorphic Modular Forms
Acta Arithmetica
  • Scott Ahlgren
  • Stephanie Treneer, Western Washington University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Keywords
  • partition function,
  • rank generating function,
  • Maass form,
  • weakly holomorphic modular form
Disciplines
Abstract

Introduction and statement of results. Recent works have illustrated that the Fourier coefficients of harmonic weak Maass forms of weight 1/2 contain a wealth of number-theoretic and combinatorial information. After these works, it is known that many enigmatic q-series (the “mock theta functions” of Ramanujan, and certain rank-generating functions from the theory of partitions, for example) arise naturally as the “holomorphic parts” of such forms. See, for example, Bringmann and Ono [5, 6], Bringmann, Ono, and Rhoades [7], Zwegers [19], Bringmann and Lovejoy [4], Lovejoy and Osburn [12], or see the survey paper [13] for an overview. As another striking example, Bruinier and Ono [9] show that the coefficients of the holomorphic parts of weight 1/2 Maass forms determine the fields of definition of certain Heegner divisors in the Jacobians of modular curves, which in turn determine the vanishing or non-vanishing of derivatives of modular L-functions

DOI
10.4064/aa133-3-5
Required Publisher's Statement

Acta Arithmetica 133 (2008), 267-279MSC: Primary 11F37; Secondary 11P82.DOI: 10.4064/aa133-3-5

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Acta Arithmetica 133 (2008), 267-279MSC: Primary 11F37; Secondary 11P82.DOI: 10.4064/aa133-3-5

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Forms, Modular
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Citation Information
Scott Ahlgren and Stephanie Treneer. "Rank Generating Functions as Weakly Holomorphic Modular Forms" Acta Arithmetica Vol. 133 Iss. 3 (2008) p. 267 - 279
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/stephanie-treneer/12/