On a modularity conjecture of Andrews, Dixit, Schultz, and Yee for a variation of Ramanujan's $\omega(q)$

Abstract

We analyze the mock modular behavior of $\bar{P}_\omega(q)$, a partition function introduced by Andrews, Dixit, Schultz, and Yee. This function arose in a study of smallest parts functions related to classical third order mock theta functions, one of which is $\omega(q)$. We find that the modular completion of $\bar{P}_\omega(q)$ is not simply a harmonic Maass form, but is instead the derivative of a linear combination of products of various harmonic Maass forms and theta functions. We precisely describe its behavior under modular transformations and find that the image under the Maass lowering operator lies in a relatively simpler space.