2010
DOI: 10.4007/annals.2010.171.419
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Dyson’s ranks and Maass forms

Abstract: Motivated by work of Ramanujan, Freeman Dyson defined the rank of an integer partition to be its largest part minus its number of parts. If N.m; n/ denotes the number of partitions of n with rank m, then it turns out thatWe show that if ¤ 1 is a root of unity, then R. I q/ is essentially the holomorphic part of a weight 1=2 weak Maass form on a subgroup of SL 2 ‫./ޚ.‬ For integers 0 Ä r < t, we use this result to determine the modularity of the generating function for N.r; tI n/, the number of partitions of n … Show more

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“…Zwegers's thesis has sparked a flurry of recent activity involving such Maass forms. Indeed, harmonic Maass forms are now known to play a central role in the study of Ramanujan's mock theta functions, as well as other important mathematical topics: Borcherds products, derivatives of modular L-functions, GrossZagier formulas and Faltings heights of CM cycles, partitions,and traces of singular moduli (see Bringmann and Ono [5;6], Bringmann, Ono and Rhoades [7], Bruinier [8], Bruinier and Funke [9], Bruinier and Ono [10], Bruinier and Yang [12], Ono [40], Zagier [55] and Zwegers [56]). …”
Section: Introduction and Statement Of Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Zwegers's thesis has sparked a flurry of recent activity involving such Maass forms. Indeed, harmonic Maass forms are now known to play a central role in the study of Ramanujan's mock theta functions, as well as other important mathematical topics: Borcherds products, derivatives of modular L-functions, GrossZagier formulas and Faltings heights of CM cycles, partitions,and traces of singular moduli (see Bringmann and Ono [5;6], Bringmann, Ono and Rhoades [7], Bruinier [8], Bruinier and Funke [9], Bruinier and Ono [10], Bruinier and Yang [12], Ono [40], Zagier [55] and Zwegers [56]). …”
Section: Introduction and Statement Of Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is contrary to Ramanujan's claim in his deathbed letter that, "Unlike the False ϑ-functions (studied partially by Prof. Rogers in his interesting paper) they ('Mock' ϑ-functions) enter into mathematics as beautifully as the ordinary theta functions." (4). The connection between partial and mock theta functions in different half-planes has appeared in at least three other contexts.…”
Section: The Mordell Integralmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The most significant applications of mock theta functions to the theory of partitions come from the study of Dyson's rank (see the works of Bringmann and Ono [4,5]). An integer partition of n is a sequence λ 1 ≥ λ 2 ≥ · · · ≥ λ > 0 such that λ 1 +λ 2 +· · ·+λ = n. The numbers λ j are the parts of the partition.…”
Section: The Mordell Integralmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the weight 1/2 case, they are intimately related to the mock theta functions, a term coined by Ramanujan in his famous 1920 deathbed letter to Hardy. It took until the first decade of the twenty-first century before work by Zwegers [43], Bruinier and Funke [7] and Bringmann and Ono [5,6] established the "right" framework for these enigmatic functions of Ramanujan's, namely that of harmonic Maaß forms. Since then, there have been many applications of harmonic Maaß forms both in various fields of pure mathematics, see for instance [1,4,9,16], among many others, and mathematical physics, especially in regard to quantum black holes and wall crossing [15] as well as Mathieu and Umbral Moonshine [12,13,18,23].…”
Section: Harmonic Maaß Formsmentioning
confidence: 99%