On the explicit construction of higher deformations of partition statistics

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DOI10.1215/00127094-2008-035zbMATH Open1154.11034arXiv0707.1717OpenAlexW2016881381MaRDI QIDQ939643FDOQ939643


Authors: Kathrin Bringmann Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 28 August 2008

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The modularity of the partition generating function has many important consequences, for example asymptotics and congruences for p(n). In a series of papers the author and Ono cite{BO1,BO2} connected the rank, a partition statistic introduced by Dyson, to weak Maass forms, a new class of functions which are related to modular forms and which were first considered in cite{BF}. Here we do a further step towards understanding how weak Maass forms arise from interesting partition statistics by placing certain 2-marked Durfee symbols introduced by Andrews cite{An1} into the framework of weak Maass forms. To do this we construct a new class of functions which we call quasiweak Maass forms because they have quasimodular forms as components. As an application we prove two conjectures of Andrews. It seems that this new class of functions will play an important role in better understanding weak Maass forms of higher weight themselves, and also their derivatives. As a side product we introduce a new method which enables us to prove transformation laws for generating functions over incomplete lattices.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1717




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