Vector-valued modular forms and the mock theta conjectures

DOI10.1007/S40993-016-0062-6MaRDI QIDQ2374573zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nickolas Andersen

Publication date 15 December 2016

Published in Research in Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05294

zbMATH Keywords

Weil representationharmonic Maass formsmock theta conjectures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms (11F37) Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27)

Abstract: The mock theta conjectures are ten identities involving Ramanujan's fifth-order mock theta functions. The conjectures were proven by Hickerson in 1988 using q-series methods. Using methods from the theory of harmonic Maass forms, specifically work of Zwegers and Bringmann-Ono, Folsom reduced the proof of the mock theta conjectures to a finite computation. Both of these approaches involve proving the identities individually, relying on work of Andrews-Garvan. Here we give a unified proof of the mock theta conjectures by realizing them as an equality between two nonholomorphic vector-valued modular forms which transform according to the Weil representation. We then show that the difference of these vectors lies in a zero-dimensional vector space.

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