Vector-valued modular forms and the mock theta conjectures

DOI10.1007/S40993-016-0062-6zbMATH Open1402.11071arXiv1604.05294OpenAlexW2963887458WikidataQ123277960 ScholiaQ123277960MaRDI QIDQ2374573FDOQ2374573

Authors: Nickolas Andersen 

Publication date: 15 December 2016

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

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.

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

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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)

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