Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): Amanda Folsom
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 4143-4149.
MSC (2000): Primary 11F37
Posted: June 17, 2008
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Abstract: A celebrated work of D. Hickerson gives a proof of the Mock Theta Conjectures using Hecke-type identities discovered by G. Andrews. Here, we respond to a remark by K. Bringmann, K. Ono and R. Rhoades and provide a short proof of the Mock Theta Conjectures by realizing each side of the identities as the holomorphic projection of a harmonic weak Maass form.

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Amanda Folsom
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 480 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Email: folsom@math.wisc.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09434-3
PII: S 0002-9939(08)09434-3
Received by editor(s): November 5, 2007
Posted: June 17, 2008
Additional Notes: The author is grateful for a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and wishes to thank Ken Ono for suggesting this project. The author also thanks the referee for a very detailed and thoughtful report, including useful suggestions that have helped ease the exposition of this paper.
Communicated by: Ken Ono
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society

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