The Bailey chain and mock theta functions (Q387897)

Mock theta functions were first introduced by S. Ramanujan in his last letter to G. H. Hardy dated on January 12, 1920 which includes \(\mathcal{F}_1(q):= \sum_{n\geq 1} \dfrac{q^{n^2}}{(q^n)_n}. \) Here the authors use the standard \(q\)-hypergeometric notation \[ (a)_n = (a;q)_n = (1-a)(1-aq) \cdots (1-aq^{n-1}). \] Bailey pairs form a pair of sequences \((\alpha_n, \beta_n)_{n \geq 0} \) satisfying \[ \beta_n = \sum_{k=0}^{n} \frac{\alpha_k}{(q)_{n-k} (aq)_{n+k}} \tag{1} \] and the use of these Bailey pairs leads to an identity \[ \sum_{n\geq 0} (b)_n (c)_n (aq/bc)^n \beta_n = \frac{(aq/b)_\infty (aq/c)_\infty}{(aq)_\infty (aq/bc)_\infty } \sum_{n \geq 0} \frac{(b)_n (c)_n (aq/bc)^n }{(aq/b)_n (aq/c)_n } \alpha_n \] under some convergence conditions. In the 1980's, Andrews showed that if \((\alpha_n, \beta_n) \) is a sequence satisfying (1), then so is \((\alpha_n', \beta_n'), \) where \[ \alpha_n' = \frac{(b)_n (c)_n (aq/bc)^n}{(aq/b)_n (aq/c)_n } \alpha_n \tag{2} \] and \[ \beta_n' = \sum_{k=0}^{n} \frac{(b)_k (c)_k (aq/bc)_{n-k} (aq/bc)^k } {(aq/b)_n (aq/c)_n (q)_{n-k}} \beta_k . \tag{3} \] Iterating (2) and (3) leads to a sequence of Bailey pairs, called the Bailey chain. In the paper under review the authors investigate the mock modularity of \(q\)-hypergeometric multisums constructed by using changes of bases in Bailey pairs, a method used by Bressoud, Ismail, and Stanton in [\textit{D. Bressoud} et al., Ramanujan J. 4, No. 4, 435--453 (2000; Zbl 0980.33013)]. Some identities involving these multisums and classical mock theta functions are also established.