The goal of this paper is to provide a new combinatorial meaning to two fifth order and four sixth order mock theta functions. Lattice paths of Agarwal and Bressoud with certain modifications are used as a tool to study these functions.
Citation: Meenakshi Rana, Shruti Sharma. Combinatorics of some fifth and sixth order mock theta functions[J]. Electronic Research Archive, 2021, 29(1): 1803-1818. doi: 10.3934/era.2020092
The goal of this paper is to provide a new combinatorial meaning to two fifth order and four sixth order mock theta functions. Lattice paths of Agarwal and Bressoud with certain modifications are used as a tool to study these functions.
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