A proof of the mod 4 unimodal sequence conjectures and related mock theta functions

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2022.108235MaRDI QIDQ2078874zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rong Chen, Frank G. Garvan

Publication date 4 March 2022

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14315

zbMATH Keywords

Andrews spt-functionHecke-Rogers seriesHurwitz class numbermock-theta functionsunimodal sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Class numbers of quadratic and Hermitian forms (11E41) Modular and automorphic functions (11F03) Congruences for modular and (p)-adic modular forms (11F33) Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms (11F37) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83) Partition identities; identities of Rogers-Ramanujan type (11P84) Basic hypergeometric functions in one variable, ({}_rphi_s) (33D15)

Abstract: In 2012 Bryson, Ono, Pitman and Rhoades showed how the generating functions for certain strongly unimodal sequences are related to quantum modular and mock modular forms. They proved some parity results and conjectured some mod 4 congruences for the coefficients of these generating functions. In 2016 Kim, Lim and Lovejoy obtained similar results for odd-balanced unimodal sequences and made similar mod 4 conjectures. We prove all of these mod 4 conjectures and similar congruences for the Andrews spt-function and related mock theta functions. Our method of proof involves new Hecke-Rogers type identities for indefinite binary quadratic forms and the Hurwitz class number.

Review text

The authors provide detailed background and required basic necessary results needed for this article. A mod \(4\) unimodal sequence conjecture established by \textit{J.Bryson} [``Unimodal sequences and quantum and mock modular forms, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, No. 40, 16063--16067 (2012; \url{doi:10.1073/pnas.1211964109})] is proved by the authors. Another mod \(4\) unimodal sequence conjecture given by \textit{B. Kim} et al. [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 144, No. 9, 3687--3700 (2016; Zbl 1404.11052)] is pointed out as \textit{false}, and suggested its correct form and proof as Theorem 4.1. Authors also established an analogous mod \(4\) results which state as spt-function and for the coefficients of related mock theta function, introduced by \textit{G. E. Andrews} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 624, 133--142 (2008; Zbl 1153.11053)]. Several related new results are also discussed in this paper, which are useful for further advancement of the subject.

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