Nonholomorphic Ramanujan-type congruences for Hurwitz class numbers

Journal article, 2020

In contrast to all other known Ramanujan-type congruences, we discover that Ramanujan-type congruences for Hurwitz class numbers can be supported on nonholomorphic generating series. We establish a divisibility result for such nonholomorphic congruences of Hurwitz class numbers. The two key 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.