Theta lifts for Lorentzian lattices and coefficients of mock theta functions (Q2663098)

Following [\textit{R. E. Borcherds}, Invent. Math. 132, No. 3, 491--562 (1998; Zbl 0919.11036)], the theta lift \(\Theta f\) of a harmonic Maass form \(f\) is defined as a regularized integral of \(f\) against a Siegel theta function. In this paper, the authors evaluate lifts \(\Theta f\) on orthogonal groups of signature \((1, n)\) lattices in several ways. On one hand, expanding either \(f\) as a linear combination of Maass Poincaré series or \(\Theta\) as a Fourier series yields explicit series expansions of the theta lift. On the other hand, the authors use Stokes' theorem to realize special values of the theta lift as the constant term of a product of \(f\) itself with a mock modular form of weight \(3/2\) and a theta function of a negative-definite lattice. By comparing these evaluations, the authors determine recurrence identities for the Fourier coefficients of mock modular forms. They give examples for the Hurwitz class numbers, Andrews' smallest-parts function \(\mathrm{spt}\) and the coefficients of Ramanujan mock theta functions.