Eulerian series as Modular forms revisited

Mortenson, Eric

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-2015-12451-3

Eulerian series as Modular forms revisited
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Abstract:

Recently, Bringmann, Ono, and Rhoades employed harmonic weak Maass forms to prove results on Eulerian series as modular forms. By changing the setting to Appell–Lerch sums, we shorten the proof of one of their main theorems. In addition we discuss connections to recent work of Kang.

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