On a modularity conjecture of Andrews, Dixit, Schultz, and Yee for a variation of Ramanujan's \(\omega\)(\(q\)) (Q1688640)

From MaRDI portal
scientific article
Language Label Description Also known as
English
On a modularity conjecture of Andrews, Dixit, Schultz, and Yee for a variation of Ramanujan's \(\omega\)(\(q\))
scientific article

    Statements

    On a modularity conjecture of Andrews, Dixit, Schultz, and Yee for a variation of Ramanujan's \(\omega\)(\(q\)) (English)
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    11 January 2018
    0 references
    \textit{G. E. Andrews} et al. [Acta Arith. 181, No. 3, 253--286 (2017; Zbl 1422.11210)] defined \(\overline{p}_{\omega}(n)\) to be the number of overpartitions of \(n\) such that all odd parts are less than twice the smallest part, and in which the smallest part is always overlined. They go on to ask: ``Is the generating function of \(\overline{p}_{\omega}(n)\), namely \[ \overline{P}_{\omega}(n) := \sum_{n=1}^\infty \overline{p}_{\omega}(n) q^n = \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac {q^n (-q^{n+1};q)_n (-q^{2n+2};q^2)_\infty}{(1-q^n)(q^{n+1};q)_n (q^{2n+2};q^2)_\infty}, \] representable in terms of some more important functions, say for example, mock theta functions or more generally, mock modular forms or mixed mock modular forms?'' The main result of this paper provides an affirmative answer to this question of Andrews, Dixit, Schultz, and Yee on the modularity properties on \(\overline{P}_{\omega}(n)\). More exactly, the authors rewrite \(\overline{P}_{\omega}(n)\) as an indefinite theta function and then they express \(\overline{P}_{\omega}(n)\) in terms of known mock modular forms.
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    integer partitions
    0 references
    Andrews' smallest parts functions
    0 references
    modular forms
    0 references
    harmonic Maass forms
    0 references
    mock theta functions
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references