Proofs of some conjectures of Chan on Appell-Lerch sums

DOI10.1007/S11139-018-0076-XMaRDI QIDQ2301906zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nayandeep Deka Baruah, Nilufar Mana Begum

Publication date 25 February 2020

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03957

zbMATH Keywords

congruencetheta functionAppell-Lerch summock theta function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83) Basic hypergeometric functions in one variable, ({}_rphi_s) (33D15)

Abstract: On page 3 of his lost notebook, Ramanujan defines the Appell-Lerch sum ${\displaystyle }$phi(q):=sum_{n=0}^infty dfrac{(-q;q)_{2n}q^{n+1}}{(q;q^2)_{n+1}^2},${\displaystyle }$ which is connected to some of his sixth order mock theta functions. Let $su{m}_{n=1}^{i}nftya(n)q^n:=phi(q)$. In this paper, we find a representation of the generating function of $a(10n+9)$ in terms of $q$-products. As corollaries, we deduce the congruences $a(50n+19)equiva(50n+39)equiva(50n+49)equiv0(extupmod25)$ as well as $a(1250n+250r+219)equiv0(extupmod125)$, where $r=1$, $3$, and $4$. The first three congruences were conjectured by Chan in 2012, whereas the congruences modulo 125 are new. We also prove two more conjectural congruences of Chan for the coefficients of two Appell-Lerch sums.

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