Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: van Ittersum, Jan-Willem, Mauth, Lukas, Ono, Ken, Singh, Ajit
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20432
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • MacMahon's partition functions and their extensions provide equations that identify prime numbers as solutions. These results depend on the theory of (mixed weight) quasimodular forms on $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$. Two of the authors, along with Craig, conjectured an explicit description of the set of prime-detecting quasimodular forms in terms of Eisenstein series and their derivatives. Kane et al.\ recently verified this conjecture using analytic methods. We offer an alternative proof using the theory of $\ell$-adic Galois representations associated to modular forms.