Numerical experiments on coefficients of instanton partition functions

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2023.V17.N4.A3MaRDI QIDQ6184627zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Aradhita Chattopadhyaya, Jan Manschot

Publication date 25 January 2024

Published in Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06711

zbMATH Keywords

instanton partition functionsmock modular formsmodularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms (11F37) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21)

Abstract: We analyze the coefficients of partition functions of Vafa-Witten theory for the complex projective plane $mathbb{CP}^2$. We experimentally study the growth of the coefficients for gauge group $SU(2)$ and $SU(3)$, which are examples of mock modular forms of depth $1$ and 2 respectively. We also introduce the notion of ``mock cusp form, and study an example of weight 3 related to the $SU(3)$ partition function. Numerical experiments on the first 200 coefficients suggest that the coefficients of a mock modular form of weight $k$ grow as the coefficients of a modular form of weight $k$, that is to say as $n^{k-1}$. On the other hand the coefficients of the mock cusp form appear to grow as $n^{3/2}$, which exceeds the growth of classical cusp forms of weight 3. We provide bounds using saddle point analysis, which however largely exceed the experimental observation.

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