On some $q$-series identities related to a generalized divisor function and their implications

Abstract: In this article, a $q$-series examined by Kluyver and Uchimura is generalized. This allows us to find generalization of the identities in the random acyclic digraph studied by Simon, Crippa, and Collenberg in 1993. As one of the corollaries of our main theorem, we get results of Dilcher and Andrews, Crippa, and Simon. This main theorem involves a surprising new generalization of the divisor function $\sigma_s(n)$, which we denote by $\sigma_{s,z}(n)$. Analytic properties of $\sigma_{s,z}(n)$ are also studied. As a special case of one of our theorem we obtain result from a paper of Bringmann and Jennings-Shaffer.