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modular properties of macmahon function?
How does the MacMahon function for counting plane partitions
$M(q) = \frac{1}{(1-q^n)^n}$
behave under modular transformations?
For instance for $q= e^{2 \pi i \tau}$ where $\tau \rightarrow -1/\tau$.
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Freeman Dyson's approach to string theory [closed]
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In celebrating the centenary of Ramanujan's birth, Freeman Dyson presented the following career advice for talented young physicists [1]:
My dream is that I will live to see the day when our ...
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Possible Context for this "Siegel-like" Modular Form Construction?
The following construction of something very nearly a Siegel modular form of degree 2 arose in my research. I'm outside the worlds of automorphic forms and number theory, so I'm wondering if it ...