JACOBI’S TRIPLE PRODUCT, MOCK THETA FUNCTIONS, AND THE q-BRACKET

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  • ROBERT SCHNEIDER
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In Ramanujan’s final letter to Hardy, he wrote of a strange new class of infinite series he called “mock theta functions”. It turns out all of Ramanujan’s mock theta functions are essentially specializations of a so-called universal mock theta function g3(z, q) of Gordon–McIntosh. Here we show that g3 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 g3(z, q) to extend in the variable 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.

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تاریخ انتشار 2016