MacMahon's sums-of-divisors and their connection to multiple Eisenstein series

Abstract

We give explicit expressions for MacMahon's generalized sums-of-divisors $q$-series $A_r$ and $C_r$ by relating them to (odd) multiple Eisenstein series. Recently, these sums-of-divisors have been studied in the context of quasimodular forms, vertex algebras, $N=4$ $SU(N)$ Super-Yang-Mills theory, and the study of congruences of partitions. We relate them to a broader mathematical framework and give explicit expressions for both $q$-series in terms of Eisenstein series and their odd variants.