Some characters of Kac and Wakimoto and nonholomorphic modular functions (Q842371): Difference between revisions

Let \(r \geq 1\), \(s \in \mathbb{Z}\), and \(\tau \in \mathbb{H}\). For \(q := e^{2\pi i \tau}\) define \[ K_{r,s}(\tau) := q^{-\frac{s}{2}}\frac{\eta^2(2\tau)}{\eta^{r+3}(\tau)} \sum_{k = (k_1,\dots,k_r) \in \mathbb{Z}^r} \frac{q^{\frac{1}{2}\sum_{i=1}^rk_i(k_i+1)}}{1+q^{\sum_{i=1}^r k_i-s}}, \] where \(\eta(\tau)\) is the usual Dedekind \(\eta\)-function. The \(K_{r,s}(\tau)\) are essentially the characters of the paper's title. The authors show how to complete such a character to obtain a modular function. The main step is to rewrite \(K_{r,s}(\tau)\) in terms of Zwegers' \(\mu\)-function. The completion then follows.