Abstract

Abstract We link Ramanujan-type congruences, which emerge abundantly in combinatorics, to the Galois- and geometric theory of modular forms. Specifically, we show that Ramanujan-type congruences are preserved by the action of the shallow Hecke algebra, and discover a dichotomy between congruences originating in Hecke eigenvalues and congruences on arithmetic progressions with cube-free periods. The latter provide congruences among algebraic parts of twisted central L {\mathrm{L}} -values. We specialize our results to integer partitions, for which we investigate the landmark proofs of partition congruences by Atkin and by Ono. Based on a modulo ℓ {\ell} analogue of the Maeda conjecture for certain partition generating functions, we conclude that their approach by Hecke operators acting diagonally modulo ℓ {\ell} on modular forms is indeed close to optimal. This work is enabled by several structure results for Ramanujan-type congruences that we establish. In an extended example, we showcase how to employ them to also benefit experimental work.

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