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The fifth and seventh order mock theta functions. (English) Zbl 0593.10018

The third order mock theta functions, introduced and named by S. Ramanujan, are a class of functions similar to but distinct from theta functions and yet whose behaviour under the fundamental transformations of the modular group can be described. The fifth and seventh order mock theta functions, also introduced by Ramanujan, probably have analyzable behaviour under the fundamental transformations. As a first step in this direction, the author expands the known fifth and seventh order functions into Hecke type series. For the fifth order functions, the expansion is achieved very slickly using the technique of Bailey chains [see the author, Pac. J. Math. 114, 267–283 (1984; Zbl 0547.10012)].

MSC:

11F03 Modular and automorphic functions
11F37 Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms
11P05 Waring’s problem and variants
05A19 Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics

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