New congruences modulo 9 for the coefficients of Gordon-McIntosh’s mock theta function \(\xi (q)\). (English) Zbl 07841636
Summary: In recent years, congruence properties for the coefficients of mock theta functions have been studied by mathematicians. Recently, Silva and Sellers proved some congruences modulo 3 and 9 for the coefficients of the third order mock theta function \(\xi (q)\) given by Gordon and McIntosh. Motivated by their work, we prove new congruences modulo 9 for the coefficients of \(\xi (q)\) based on the formula for the number of representations of an integer as sums of seven squares in this paper. Those congruences involve infinitely many primes.
MSC:
| 11P83 | Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions |
| 05A17 | Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers |
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