Dissections of a ``strange function

DOI10.1142/S1793042115400072MaRDI QIDQ2942526zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Scott Ahlgren, Byungchan Kim

Publication date 11 September 2015

Published in International Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1334

zbMATH Keywords

dissectionFishburn numberstrange function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Dedekind eta function, Dedekind sums (11F20) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83)

Abstract: The "strange" function of Kontsevich and Zagier is defined by [F(q):=sum_{n=0}^infty(1-q)(1-q^2)dots(1-q^n).] This series is defined only when $q$ is a root of unity, and provides an example of what Zagier has called a "quantum modular form." In their recent work on congruences for the Fishburn numbers $xi(n)$ (whose generating function is $F(1-q)$), Andrews and Sellers recorded a speculation about the polynomials which appear in the dissections of the partial sums of $F(q)$. We prove that a more general form of their speculation is true. The congruences of Andrews-Sellers were generalized by Garvan in the case of prime modulus, and by Straub in the case of prime power modulus. As a corollary of our theorem, we reprove the known congruences for $xi(n)$ modulo prime powers.

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