On some double-sum false theta series (Q1753813)

False theta series are series which would be theta series if there was no alternation of the signs in some series terms. In this paper the authors show that some false theta functions describe functions known from the literature. For example, let \(u(n)\) is the number of unimodal sequences of weight \(n\) such that the largest part in the partition before the peak is larger than or equal to the largest part in the partition after the peak. Then, by a theorem of B. Kim, \[ \sum_{n\geq0}u(n)q^n=\frac{1}{(q)_\infty}g_{1,2,4}(q,-q^4,q). \] The authors show that the function \(g_{1,2,4}(q,-q^4,q)\) is in fact a false theta series. The similar study is performed for the sequence \(du(n)\), which counts the unimodal sequences with plateau. Arithmetic properties of these sequences are also studied through their false theta representations.