scholarly journals Three-manifold quantum invariants and mock theta functions

2019 ◽  
Vol 378 (2163) ◽  
pp. 20180439
Author(s):  
Miranda C. N. Cheng ◽  
Francesca Ferrari ◽  
Gabriele Sgroi
Keyword(s):  
Modular Forms ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Mock Theta Functions ◽  
Quantum Invariants ◽  
Quantum Invariant ◽  
Mock Modular Forms ◽  
Mathematical Sciences

Mock modular forms have found applications in numerous branches of mathematical sciences since they were first introduced by Ramanujan nearly a century ago. In this proceeding, we highlight a new area where mock modular forms start to play an important role, namely the study of three-manifold invariants. For a certain class of Seifert three-manifolds, we describe a conjecture on the mock modular properties of a recently proposed quantum invariant. As an illustration, we include concrete computations for a specific three-manifold, the Brieskorn sphere Σ (2, 3, 7). This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Srinivasa Ramanujan: in celebration of the centenary of his election as FRS’.

scholarly journals Higher depth mock theta functions and q-hypergeometric series

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Males ◽  
Andreas Mono ◽  
Larry Rolen
Keyword(s):  
Theta Function ◽  
Modular Forms ◽  
Hypergeometric Series ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Mock Theta Function ◽  
Mock Theta Functions ◽  
Maass Forms ◽  
Mock Modular Forms ◽  
Harmonic Maass Forms

Abstract In the theory of harmonic Maaß forms and mock modular forms, mock theta functions are distinguished examples which arose from q-hypergeometric examples of Ramanujan. Recently, there has been a body of work on higher depth mock modular forms. Here, we introduce distinguished examples of these forms, which we call higher depth mock theta functions, and develop q-hypergeometric expressions for them. We provide three examples of mock theta functions of depth two, each arising by multiplying a classical mock theta function with a certain specialization of a universal mock theta function. In addition, we give their modular completions, and relate each to a q-hypergeometric series.

Asymptotics and Ramanujan's mock theta functions: then and now

2019 ◽  
Vol 378 (2163) ◽  
pp. 20180448
Author(s):  
Amanda Folsom
Keyword(s):  
Modular Forms ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Scientific Meeting ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Mock Theta Functions ◽  
Maass Forms ◽  
Quantum Modular Forms ◽  
Mock Modular Forms ◽  
New Interpretation

This article is in commemoration of Ramanujan's election as Fellow of The Royal Society 100 years ago, as celebrated at the October 2018 scientific meeting at the Royal Society in London. Ramanujan's last letter to Hardy, written shortly after his election, surrounds his mock theta functions. While these functions have been of great importance and interest in the decades following Ramanujan's death in 1920, it was unclear how exactly they fit into the theory of modular forms—Dyson called this ‘a challenge for the future’ at another centenary conference in Illinois in 1987, honouring the 100th anniversary of Ramanujan's birth. In the early 2000s, Zwegers finally recognized that Ramanujan had discovered glimpses of special families of non-holomorphic modular forms, which we now know to be Bruinier and Funke's harmonic Maass forms from 2004, the holomorphic parts of which are called mock modular forms. As of a few years ago, a fundamental question from Ramanujan's last letter remained, on a certain asymptotic relationship between mock theta functions and ordinary modular forms. The author, with Ono and Rhoades, revisited Ramanujan's asymptotic claim, and established a connection between mock theta functions and quantum modular forms, which were not defined until 90 years later in 2010 by Zagier. Here, we bring together past and present, and study the relationships between mock modular forms and quantum modular forms, with Ramanujan's mock theta functions as motivation. In particular, we highlight recent work of Bringmann–Rolen, Choi–Lim–Rhoades and Griffin–Ono–Rolen in our discussion. This article is largely expository, but not exclusively: we also establish a new interpretation of Ramanujan's radial asymptotic limits in the subject of topology. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Srinivasa Ramanujan: in celebration of the centenary of his election as FRS’.

scholarly journals Partial theta functions and mock modular forms as q-hypergeometric series

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 295-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Bringmann ◽  
Amanda Folsom ◽  
Robert C. Rhoades
Keyword(s):  
Modular Forms ◽  
Hypergeometric Series ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Mock Modular Forms ◽  
Partial Theta Functions

Bilateral series and Ramanujan radial limits of mock (false) theta functions

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (04) ◽  
pp. 1950023
Author(s):  
Bin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Modular Forms ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Mock Theta Functions ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Radial Limits ◽  
The Third ◽  
False Theta Functions ◽  
Even Order ◽  
Fifth Order ◽  
Vector Valued

Ramanujan gave a list of seventeen functions which he called mock theta functions. For one of the third-order mock theta functions [Formula: see text], he claimed that as [Formula: see text] approaches an even order [Formula: see text] root of unity [Formula: see text], then [Formula: see text] He also pointed at the existence of similar properties for other mock theta functions. Recently, [J. Bajpai, S. Kimport, J. Liang, D. Ma and J. Ricci, Bilateral series and Ramanujan’s radial limits, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 143(2) (2014) 479–492] presented some similar Ramanujan radial limits of the fifth-order mock theta functions and their associated bilateral series are modular forms. In this paper, by using the substitution [Formula: see text] in the Ramanujan’s mock theta functions, some associated false theta functions in the sense of Rogers are obtained. Such functions can be regarded as Eichler integral of the vector-valued modular forms of weight [Formula: see text]. We find two associated bilateral series of the false theta functions with respect to the fifth-order mock theta functions are special modular forms. Furthermore, we explore that the other two associated bilateral series of the false theta functions with respect to the third-order mock theta functions are mock modular forms. As an application, the associated Ramanujan radial limits of the false theta functions are constructed.

Third-order mock theta functions

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Qiuxia Hu ◽  
Hanfei Song ◽  
Zhizheng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modular Forms ◽  
Hypergeometric Series ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Mock Theta Functions ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Radial Limits ◽  
The Third ◽  
Lost Notebook

In [G. E. Andrews and B. C. Berndt, Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part II (Springer, New York, 2009), Entry 3.4.7, p. 67; Y.-S. Choi, The basic bilateral hypergeometric series and the mock theta functions, Ramanujan J. 24(3) (2011) 345–386; B. Chen, Mock theta functions and Appell–Lerch sums, J. Inequal Appl. 2018(1) (2018) 156; E. Mortenson, Ramanujan’s radial limits and mixed mock modular bilateral [Formula: see text]-hypergeometric series, Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc. 59(3) (2016) 1–13; W. Zudilin, On three theorems of Folsom, Ono and Rhoades, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 143(4) (2015) 1471–1476], the authors found the bilateral series for the universal mock theta function [Formula: see text]. In [Choi, 2011], the author presented the bilateral series connected with the odd-order mock theta functions in terms of Appell–Lerch sums. However, the author only derived the associated bilateral series for the fifth-order mock theta functions. The purpose of this paper is to further derive different types of bilateral series for the third-order mock theta functions. As applications, the identities between the two-group bilateral series are obtained and the bilateral series associated to the third-order mock theta functions are in fact modular forms. Then, we consider duals of the second type in terms of Appell–Lerch sums and duals in terms of partial theta functions defined by Hickerson and Mortenson of duals of the second type in terms of Appell–Lerch sums of such bilateral series associated to some third-order mock theta functions that Chen did not discuss in [On the dual nature theory of bilateral series associated to mock theta functions, Int. J. Number Theory 14 (2018) 63–94].

THE COEFFICIENTS OF THE ω(q) MOCK THETA FUNCTION

2008 ◽  
Vol 04 (06) ◽  
pp. 1027-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHARON ANNE GARTHWAITE
Keyword(s):  
Theta Function ◽  
Modular Forms ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Exact Formula ◽  
Poincaré Series ◽  
Mock Theta Function ◽  
Mock Theta Functions ◽  
Maass Forms ◽  
Poincare Series ◽  
Vector Valued

In 1920, Ramanujan wrote to Hardy about his discovery of the mock theta functions. In the years since, there has been much work in understanding the transformation properties and asymptotic nature of these functions. Recently, Zwegers proved a relationship between mock theta functions and vector-valued modular forms, and Bringmann and Ono used the theory of Maass forms and Poincaré series to prove a conjecture of Andrews, yielding an exact formula for the coefficients of the f(q) mock theta function. Here we build upon these results, using the theory of vector-valued modular forms and Poincaré series to prove an exact formula for the coefficients of the ω(q) mock theta function.

scholarly journals Mock Jacobi forms in basic hypergeometric series

2009 ◽  
Vol 145 (03) ◽  
pp. 553-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soon-Yi Kang
Keyword(s):  
Modular Forms ◽  
Hypergeometric Series ◽  
Basic Hypergeometric Series ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Jacobi Forms ◽  
Mock Theta Functions ◽  
Torsion Points ◽  
Weakly Holomorphic Modular Forms ◽  
Real Analytic ◽  
Holomorphic Modular Forms

AbstractWe show that someq-series such as universal mock theta functions are linear sums of theta quotients and mock Jacobi forms of weight 1/2, which become holomorphic parts of real analytic modular forms when they are restricted to torsion points and multiplied by suitable powers ofq. We also prove that certain linear sums ofq-series are weakly holomorphic modular forms of weight 1/2 due to annihilation of mock Jacobi forms or completion by mock Jacobi forms. As an application, we obtain a relation between the rank and crank of a partition.

scholarly journals Jacobi’s triple product, mock theta functions, unimodal sequences and the q-bracket

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (07) ◽  
pp. 1961-1981
Author(s):  
Robert Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Unit Circle ◽  
Theta Function ◽  
Modular Forms ◽  
Statistical Physics ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Triple Product ◽  
Mock Theta Function ◽  
Mock Theta Functions ◽  
Quantum Modular Forms ◽  
Unimodal Sequences

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 [Formula: see text] of Gordon–McIntosh. Here we show that [Formula: see text] 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 [Formula: see text]-bracket of Bloch–Okounkov. Second, we find [Formula: see text] to extend in [Formula: see text] 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 [Formula: see text]-hypergeometric series. Finally, we look at interesting “quantum” behaviors of mock theta functions inside, outside, and on the unit circle.

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