In contrast to all other known Ramanujan-type congruences, we discover that Ramanujan-type congruences for Hurwitz class numbers can be supported on non-holomorphic generating series. We establish a divisibility result for such non-holomorphic congruences of Hurwitz class numbers. The two keys tools in our proof are the holomorphic projection of products of theta series with a Hurwitz class number generating series and a theorem by Serre, which allows us to rule out certain congruences.
Let $lambda$ be an integer, and $f(z)=sum_{ngg-infty} a(n)q^n$ be a weakly holomorphic modular form of weight $lambda+frac 12$ on $Gamma_0(4)$ with integral coefficients. Let $ellgeq 5$ be a prime. Assume that the constant term $a(0)$ is not zero modulo $ell$. Further, assume that, for some positive integer $m$, the Fourier expansion of $(f|U_{ell^m})(z) = sum_{n=0}^infty b(n)q^n$ has the form [ (f|U_{ell^m})(z) equiv b(0) + sum_{i=1}^{t}sum_{n=1}^{infty} b(d_i n^2) q^{d_i n^2} pmod{ell}, ] where $d_1, ldots, d_t$ are square-free positive integers, and the operator $U_ell$ on formal power series is defined by [ left( sum_{n=0}^infty a(n)q^n right) bigg| U_ell = sum_{n=0}^infty a(ell n)q^n. ] Then, $lambda equiv 0 pmod{frac{ell-1}{2}}$. Moreover, if $tilde{f}$ denotes the coefficient-wise reduction of $f$ modulo $ell$, then we have [ biggl{ lim_{m rightarrow infty} tilde{f}|U_{ell^{2m}}, lim_{m rightarrow infty} tilde{f}|U_{ell^{2m+1}} biggr} = biggl{ a(0)theta(z), a(0)theta^ell(z) in mathbb{F}_{ell}[[q]] biggr}, ] where $theta(z)$ is the Jacobi theta function defined by $theta(z) = sum_{ninmathbb{Z}} q^{n^2}$. By using this result, we obtain the distribution of the Fourier coefficients of weakly holomorphic modular forms in congruence classes. This applies to the congruence properties for traces of singular moduli.
The sequence $A(n)_{n geq 0}$ of Apery numbers can be interpolated to $mathbb{C}$ by an entire function. We give a formula for the Taylor coefficients of this function, centered at the origin, as a $mathbb{Z}$-linear combination of multiple zeta values. We then show that for integers $n$ whose base-$p$ digits belong to a certain set, $A(n)$ satisfies a Lucas congruence modulo $p^2$.
This paper is concerned with a class of partition functions $a(n)$ introduced by Radu and defined in terms of eta-quotients. By utilizing the transformation laws of Newman, Schoeneberg and Robins, and Radus algorithms, we present an algorithm to find Ramanujan-type identities for $a(mn+t)$. While this algorithm is not guaranteed to succeed, it applies to many cases. For example, we deduce a witness identity for $p(11n+6)$ with integer coefficients. Our algorithm also leads to Ramanujan-type identities for the overpartition functions $overline{p}(5n+2)$ and $overline{p}(5n+3)$ and Andrews--Paules broken $2$-diamond partition functions $triangle_{2}(25n+14)$ and $triangle_{2}(25n+24)$. It can also be extended to derive Ramanujan-type identities on a more general class of partition functions. For example, it yields the Ramanujan-type identities on Andrews singular overpartition functions $overline{Q}_{3,1}(9n+3)$ and $ overline{Q}_{3,1}(9n+6)$ due to Shen, the $2$-dissection formulas of Ramanujan and the $8$-dissection formulas due to Hirschhorn.
Let $p$ be a prime with $p>3$, and let $a,b$ be two rational $p-$integers. In this paper we present general congruences for $sum_{k=0}^{p-1}binom akbinom{-1-a}kfrac p{k+b}pmod {p^2}$. For $n=0,1,2,ldots$ let $D_n$ and $b_n$ be Domb and Almkvist-Zudilin numbers, respectively. We also establish congruences for $$sum_{n=0}^{p-1}frac{D_n}{16^n},quad sum_{n=0}^{p-1}frac{D_n}{4^n}, quad sum_{n=0}^{p-1}frac{b_n}{(-3)^n},quad sum_{n=0}^{p-1}frac{b_n}{(-27)^n}pmod {p^2}$$ in terms of certain binary quadratic forms.
We define a new kind of classical digamma function, and establish its some fundamental identities. Then we apply the formulas obtained, and extend tools developed by Flajolet and Salvy to study more general Euler type sums. The main results of Flajolet and Salvys paper cite{FS1998} are the immediate corollaries of main results in this paper. Furthermore, we provide some parameterized extensions of Ramanujan-type identities that involve hyperbolic series. Some interesting new consequences and illustrative examples are considered.