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Let $O_L$ be the ring of integers of a number field $L$. Write $q = e^{2 \pi i z}$, and suppose that $$f(z) = \sum_{n \gg - \infty}^{\infty} a_f(n) q^n \in M_{k}^{!}(\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})) \cap O_L[[q]]$$ is a weakly holomorphic modular form of even weight $k \leq 2$. We answer a question of Ono by showing that if $p \geq 5$ is prime and $ 2-k = r(p-1) + 2 p^t$ for some $r \geq 0$ and $t > 0$, then $a_f(p^t) \equiv 0 \pmod p$. For $p = 2,3,$ we show the same result, under the condition that $2 - k - 2 p^t$ is even and at least $4$. This represents the "missing case" of a theorem proved by Jin, Ma, and Ono., Comment: 4 pages; to appear in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

We study which integers are admissible as Fourier coefficients of even integer weight newforms. In the specific case of the tau-function, we show that for all odd primes $\ell < 100$ and all integers $m \geq 1$, we have $$ \tau(n) \neq \pm \ell, \pm 5^m. $$ For general newforms $f$ with even integer weight $2k$ and integer coefficients, we prove for most integers $j$ dividing $2k-1$ and all ordinary primes $p$ that $a_f(p^2)$ is never a $j$-th power. We prove a similar result for $a_f(p^4)$, conditional on the Frey-Mazur Conjecture. Our primary method involves relating questions about values of newforms to the existence of perfect powers in certain binary recurrence sequences, and makes use of bounds from the theory of linear forms in logarithms. The method extends without difficulty to a large family of Lebesgue-Nagell equations with fixed exponent. To prove results about general newforms, we also make use of the modular method and Ribet's level-lowering theorem., Comment: 22 pages; to appear in Journal of Number Theory

We present a method for proving that Jensen polynomials associated with functions in the $\delta$-Laguerre-P\'olya class have all real roots, and demonstrate how it can be used to construct new functions belonging to the Laguerre-P\'olya class. As an application, we confirm a conjecture of Ono, which asserts that the Jensen polynomials associated with the first term of the Hardy-Ramanujan-Rademacher series formula for the partition function are always hyperbolic.

The partition function $p(n)$ has been a testing ground for applications of analytic number theory to combinatorics. In particular, Hardy and Ramanujan invented the "circle method" to estimate the size of $p(n)$, which was later perfected by Rademacher who obtained an exact formula. Recently, Chan and Wang considered the fractional partition functions, defined by $\sum_{n = 0}^\infty p_{\alpha}(n)x^n := \prod_{k=1}^\infty (1-x^k)^{-\alpha}$. In this paper we use the Rademacher circle method to find an exact formula for $p_\alpha(n)$ and study its implications, including log-concavity and the higher-order generalizations (i.e., the Tur\'an inequalities) that $p_\alpha(n)$ satisfies., Comment: Fixed typos and made minor stylistic changes