Congruences on Square-Classes for the Partition Function

We considerably improve Ono’s and Ahlgren-Ono’s work on the frequent occurrence of Ramanujan-type congruences for the partition function, and demonstrate that Ramanujan-type congruences occur in families that are governed by square-classes. We thus elucidate for the first time an exemplary family of congruences found by Atkin-O’Brien. Our results are based on a novel framework that leverages available results on integral models of modular curves via representations of finite quotients of ${\mathrm{S}\mathrm{L}}_2(\mathbb{Z})$ or ${\mathrm{M}\mathrm{p}}_1(\mathbb{Z})$. This framework applies to congruences of all weakly holomorphic modular forms.