Jacobi's triple product, mock theta functions, unimodal sequences and the q-bracket

DOI10.1142/S1793042118501178zbMATH Open1410.33031arXiv1608.07842OpenAlexW2963557378MaRDI QIDQ3177697FDOQ3177697

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Publication date: 1 August 2018

Published in: International Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In Ramanujan's final letter to Hardy, he listed examples of a strange new class of infinite series he called "mock theta functions". It turns out all of these examples are essentially specializations of a so-called universal mock theta function $g_3(z,q)$ of Gordon-McIntosh. Here we show that $g_3$ arises naturally from the reciprocal of the classical Jacobi triple product -- and is intimately tied to rank generating functions for unimodal sequences, which are connected to mock modular and quantum modular forms -- under the action of an operator related to statistical physics and partition theory, the $q$-bracket of Bloch-Okounkov. Secondly, we find $g_3(z,q)$ to extend in $q$ to the entire complex plane minus the unit circle, and give a finite formula for this universal mock theta function at roots of unity, that is simple by comparison to other such formulas in the literature; we also indicate similar formulas for other $q$-hypergeometric series. Finally, we look at interesting "quantum" behaviors of mock theta functions inside, outside, and on the unit circle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07842

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zbMATH Keywords

mock modular form\(q\)-seriesinteger partition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Modular and automorphic functions (11F03) Basic hypergeometric functions in one variable, ({}_rphi_s) (33D15)

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