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A derivation of the Hardy-Ramanujan formula from an arithmetic formula
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Abstract:

We re-prove the Hardy-Ramanujan asymptotic formula for the partition function without using the circle method. We derive our result from recent work of Bruinier and Ono on harmonic weak Maass forms.
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Additional Information
  • Michael Dewar
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
  • Email: mdewar@mast.queensu.ca
  • M. Ram Murty
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
  • MR Author ID: 128555
  • Email: murty@mast.queensu.ca
  • Received by editor(s): September 22, 2011
  • Published electronically: December 26, 2012
  • Additional Notes: The first author was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC)
    The second author was supported by a Discovery Grant from NSERC
  • Communicated by: Ken Ono
  • © Copyright 2012 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 141 (2013), 1903-1911
  • MSC (2010): Primary 11E16, 11F03, 11P82
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11458-3
  • MathSciNet review: 3034417