Alternating ``strange functions

DOI10.1007/S11139-018-0005-ZMaRDI QIDQ2631613zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 15 May 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05126

zbMATH Keywords

$q$-seriesdivergent seriesmock theta functionquantum modular form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discontinuous groups and automorphic forms (11F99) Basic hypergeometric functions in one variable, ({}_rphi_s) (33D15) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences of functions (40A30)

Abstract: In this note we consider infinite series similar to the "strange" function $F(q)$ of Kontsevich studied by Zagier, Bryson-Ono-Pitman-Rhoades, Bringmann-Folsom-Rhoades, Rolen-Schneider, and others in connection to quantum modular forms. We show that a class of "strange" alternating series that are well-defined almost nowhere in the complex plane can be added (using a modified definition of limits) to familiar infinite products to produce convergent $q$-hypergeometric series, of a shape that specializes to Ramanujan's mock theta function $f(q)$, Zagier's quantum modular form $sigma(q)$, and other interesting number-theoretic objects. We also discuss Ces`{a}ro sums for these alternating series, and continued fractions that are similarly "strange".

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