Ranks of partitions play an important role in the theory of partitions. They provide combinatorial interpretations for Ramanujan’s famous congruences for partition functions. We establish a family of congruences modulo powers of $5$ for ranks of partitions.

In this paper, we compute the Fourier expansion of the Shintani lift of nearly holomorphic modular forms. As an application, we deduce modularity properties of generating series of cycle integrals of nearly holomorphic modular forms.

A (folklore?) conjecture states that no holomorphic modular form $F(\tau )=\sum _{n=1}^{\infty } a_nq^n\in q\mathbb Z[[q]]$ exists, where $q=e^{2\pi i\tau }$ , such that its anti-derivative $\sum _{n=1}^{\infty } a_nq^n/n$ has integral coefficients in the q-expansion. A recent observation of Broadhurst and Zudilin, rigorously accomplished by Li and Neururer, led to examples of meromorphic modular forms possessing the integrality property. In this note, we investigate the arithmetic phenomenon from a systematic perspective and discuss related transcendental extensions of the differentially closed ring of quasi-modular forms.

Let F be a Siegel cusp form of degree $2$ , even weight $k \ge 2$ , and odd square-free level N. We undertake a detailed study of the analytic properties of Fourier coefficients $a(F,S)$ of F at fundamental matrices S (i.e., with $-4\det (S)$ equal to a fundamental discriminant). We prove that as S varies along the equivalence classes of fundamental matrices with $\det (S) \asymp X$ , the sequence $a(F,S)$ has at least $X^{1-\varepsilon }$ sign changes and takes at least $X^{1-\varepsilon }$ ‘large values’. Furthermore, assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis as well as the refined Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture, we prove the bound $\lvert a(F,S)\rvert \ll _{F, \varepsilon } \frac {\det (S)^{\frac {k}2 - \frac {1}{2}}}{ \left (\log \lvert \det (S)\rvert \right )^{\frac 18 - \varepsilon }}$ for fundamental matrices S.

We establish the first moment bound

$$\begin{align*}\sum_{\varphi} L(\varphi \otimes \varphi \otimes \Psi, \tfrac{1}{2}) \ll_\varepsilon p^{5/4+\varepsilon} \end{align*}$$

$\Psi $

$\operatorname {\mathrm {SL}}_2(\mathbb {Z})$

$\varphi $

$\Gamma _0(p)$

$5/4$

Under the triple product formula, our result may be understood as a strong level aspect form of quantum ergodicity: for a large prime p, all but very few Hecke–Maass newforms on $\Gamma _0(p) \backslash \mathbb {H}$ of bounded eigenvalue have very uniformly distributed mass after pushforward to $\operatorname {\mathrm {SL}}_2(\mathbb {Z}) \backslash \mathbb {H}$ .

Our main result turns out to be closely related to estimates such as

$$\begin{align*}\sum_{|n| < p} L(\Psi \otimes \chi_{n p},\tfrac{1}{2}) \ll p, \end{align*}$$

$n p$

$\chi _{n p}$

Let $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}(m,n)$ (respectively, $\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}(m,n)$) denote the number of odd-balanced unimodal sequences of size $2n$ and rank $m$ with even parts congruent to $2\!\!\hspace{0.6em}{\rm mod}\hspace{0.2em}4$ (respectively, $0\!\!\hspace{0.6em}{\rm mod}\hspace{0.2em}4$) and odd parts at most half the peak. We prove that two-variable generating functions for $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}(m,n)$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}(m,n)$ are simultaneously quantum Jacobi forms and mock Jacobi forms. These odd-balanced unimodal rank generating functions are also duals to partial theta functions originally studied by Ramanujan. Our results also show that there is a single $C^{\infty }$ function in $\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}$ to which the errors to modularity of these two different functions extend. We also exploit the quantum Jacobi properties of these generating functions to show, when viewed as functions of the two variables $w$ and $q$, how they can be expressed as the same simple Laurent polynomial when evaluated at pairs of roots of unity. Finally, we make a conjecture which fully characterizes the parity of the number of odd-balanced unimodal sequences of size $2n$ with even parts congruent to $0\!\!\hspace{0.6em}{\rm mod}\hspace{0.2em}4$ and odd parts at most half the peak.

We study genuine local Hecke algebras of the Iwahori type of the double cover of $\operatorname{SL}_{2}(\mathbb{Q}_{p})$ and translate the generators and relations to classical operators on the space $S_{k+1/2}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}_{0}(4M))$, $M$ odd and square-free. In [9] Manickam, Ramakrishnan, and Vasudevan defined the new space of $S_{k+1/2}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}_{0}(4M))$ that maps Hecke isomorphically onto the space of newforms of $S_{2k}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}_{0}(2M))$. We characterize this newspace as a common $-1$-eigenspace of a certain pair of conjugate operators that come from local Hecke algebras. We use the classical Hecke operators and relations that we obtain to give a new proof of the results in [9] and to prove our characterization result.

We show that every Fricke-invariant meromorphic modular form for $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}_{0}(N)$ whose divisor on $X_{0}(N)$ is defined over $\mathbb{Q}$ and supported on Heegner divisors and the cusps is a generalized Borcherds product associated to a harmonic Maass form of weight $1/2$. Further, we derive a criterion for the finiteness of the multiplier systems of generalized Borcherds products in terms of the vanishing of the central derivatives of $L$-functions of certain weight $2$ newforms. We also prove similar results for twisted Borcherds products.

In this article we obtain an explicit formula for certain Rankin–Selberg type Dirichlet series associated to certain Siegel cusp forms of half-integral weight. Here these Siegel cusp forms of half-integral weight are obtained from the composition of the Ikeda lift and the Eichler–Zagier–Ibukiyama correspondence. The integral weight version of the main theorem was obtained by Katsurada and Kawamura. The result of the integral weight case is a product of an $L$-function and Riemann zeta functions, while the half-integral weight case is an infinite summation over negative fundamental discriminants with certain infinite products. To calculate an explicit formula for such Rankin–Selberg type Dirichlet series, we use a generalized Maass relation and adjoint maps of index-shift maps of Jacobi forms.

The standard twist $F(s,\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC})$ of $L$-functions $F(s)$ in the Selberg class has several interesting properties and plays a central role in the Selberg class theory. It is therefore natural to study its finer analytic properties, for example the functional equation. Here we deal with a special case, where $F(s)$ satisfies a functional equation with the same $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$-factor of the $L$-functions associated with the cusp forms of half-integral weight; for simplicity we present our results directly for such $L$-functions. We show that the standard twist $F(s,\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC})$ satisfies a functional equation reflecting $s$ to $1-s$, whose shape is not far from a Riemann-type functional equation of degree 2 and may be regarded as a degree 2 analog of the Hurwitz–Lerch functional equation. We also deduce some results on the growth on vertical strips and on the distribution of zeros of $F(s,\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC})$.

The author gives the analytic properties of the Rankin–Selberg convolutions of two half-integral weight Maass forms in the plus space. Applications to the Koecher–Maass series associated with nonholomorphic Siegel–Eisenstein series are given.

Using a result of Warnaar, we prove a number of single- and multi-sum identities in the spirit of Ramanujan’s partial theta identities, but with partial indefinite binary theta functions in the role of partial theta functions. We also calculate the corresponding residual identities and use a result of Ji and Zhao to recast our identities in terms of indefinite ternary theta functions.

For a half-integral weight modular form $f=\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }a_{f}(n)n^{(k-1)/2}q^{n}$ of weight $k=\ell +1/2$ on $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}_{0}(4)$ such that $a_{f}(n)$ ( $n\in \mathbb{N}$ ) are real, we prove for a fixed suitable natural number $r$ that $a_{f}(n)$ changes sign infinitely often as $n$ varies over numbers having at most $r$ prime factors, assuming the analog of the Ramanujan conjecture for Fourier coefficients of half-integral weight forms.

We establish lower bounds for (i) the numbers of positive and negative terms and (ii) the number of sign changes in the sequence of Fourier coefficients at squarefree integers of a half-integral weight modular Hecke eigenform.

Let $K$ be a complex quadratic extension of $\mathbb{Q}$ and let ${{\mathbb{A}}_{K}}$ denote the adeles of $K$. We find special values at all of the critical points of twisted tensor $L$-functions attached to cohomological cuspforms on $G{{L}_{2}}\left( {{\mathbb{A}}_{K}} \right)$ and establish Galois equivariance of the values. To investigate the values, we determine the archimedean factors of a class of integral representations of these $L$-functions, thus proving a conjecture due to Ghate. We also investigate analytic properties of these $L$-functions, such as their functional equations.

In this paper, we prove that, for an integer r with (r, 6) = 1 and 0 < r < 24 and a nonnegative even integer s, the set

is isomorphic to

as Hecke modules under the Shimura correspondence. Here Ms(1) denotes the space of modular forms of weight is the space of newforms of weight 2k on Γ0 (6) that are eigenfunctions with eigenvalues €2 and €3 for Atkin-Lehner involutions W2 and W3, respectively, and the notation ⊕(12/.) means the twist by the quadratic character (12/-). There is also an analogous result for the cases (r, 6) = 3.

While investigating the Doi–Naganuma lift, Zagier defined integral weight cusp forms $f_D$ which are naturally defined in terms of binary quadratic forms of discriminant $D$. It was later determined by Kohnen and Zagier that the generating function for the function $f_D$ is a half-integral weight cusp form. A natural preimage of $f_D$ under a differential operator at the heart of the theory of harmonic weak Maass forms was determined by the first two authors and Kohnen. In this paper, we consider the modularity properties of the generating function of these preimages. We prove that although the generating function is not itself modular, it can be naturally completed to obtain a half-integral weight modular object.

Ramanujan’s last letter to Hardy concerns the asymptotic properties of modular forms and his ‘mock theta functions’. For the mock theta function $f(q)$, Ramanujan claims that as $q$ approaches an even-order $2k$ root of unity, we have

$$\begin{eqnarray*}f(q)- (- 1)^{k} (1- q)(1- {q}^{3} )(1- {q}^{5} )\cdots (1- 2q+ 2{q}^{4} - \cdots )= O(1).\end{eqnarray*}$$

$q$

$\vartheta $

In this paper, we construct a generalization of the Kohnen plus space for Hilbert modular forms of half-integral weight. The Kohnen plus space can be characterized by the eigenspace of a certain Hecke operator. It can be also characterized by the behavior of the Fourier coefficients. For example, in the parallel weight case, a modular form of weight $\kappa + (1/ 2)$ with $\xi \mathrm{th} $ Fourier coefficient $c(\xi )$ belongs to the Kohnen plus space if and only if $c(\xi )= 0$ unless $\mathop{(- 1)}\nolimits ^{\kappa } \xi $ is congruent to a square modulo $4$. The Kohnen subspace is isomorphic to a certain space of Jacobi forms. We also prove a generalization of the Kohnen–Zagier formula.

Despite the presence of many famous examples, the precise interplay between basic hypergeometric series and modular forms remains a mystery. We consider this problem for canonical spaces of weight 3/2 harmonic Maass forms. Using recent work of Zwegers, we exhibit forms that have the property that their holomorphic parts arise from Lerch-type series, which in turn may be formulated in terms of the Rogers–Fine basic hypergeometric series.