A note on mock automorphic forms and the BPS index (Q2049313)
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A note on mock automorphic forms and the BPS index (English)
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25 August 2021
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The notion of mock modular forms goes back to Ramanujan's introduction of mock theta functions. Recently, motivated by problems in string theory, mock modular forms have become a subject of importance. The author of paper under review motivated by certain expectations from string theory, considers mock modular forms in the context of automorphic forms on reductive groups. Let $F$ be be a scalar-valued harmonic Maaß form of weight $k\in Z,k\neq 1$. From harmonicity, we see that the Fourier expansion of $F$ has a unique decomposition into $F=F^++F^-$. The holomorphic part $F^+$ is called a mock modular form. The author uses another definition of mock modular form that replaces `holomorphic' with `cohomological', and he shows that this is consistent with the previous (above) in the case of $\mathrm{SL}_2$. The author's approach is based on representation theory. He also review the connection between BPS states and automorphic forms and introduce a definition of $L$-function associated to the partition function of BPS states.
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mock modular forms
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automorphic representations
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BPS index theorem
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exponential sums
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