Lifting cusp forms to Maass forms with an application to partitions.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

Published: March 2007

AI Article Synopsis

  • Researchers define a method to elevate cuspidal PoincarĂ© series in the context of harmonic weak Maass forms with weight 2 - k for specific values of k.
  • This work addresses Dyson's inquiry by providing a framework that helps clarify the mathematical significance of Ramanujan's mock theta functions.
  • As a practical outcome, the study reveals that the number of partitions of a positive integer n correlates with singular moduli of a Maass form linked to a weight 4 cusp form from a Calabi-Yau threefold.

Article Abstract

For 2 < k [abstract: see text] we define lifts of cuspidal Poincaré series in S(k)(Gamma(0)(N)) to weight 2 - k harmonic weak Maass forms. This construction answers a question of Dyson by providing the general framework "explaining" Ramanujan's mock theta functions. As an application, we show that the number of partitions of a positive integer n is the "trace" of singular moduli of a Maass form arising from the lift of a weight 4 cusp form corresponding to a Calabi-Yau threefold.

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