On string functions and double-sum formulas

DOI10.1007/S40687-023-00379-XMaRDI QIDQ6372699arXivFDO

Authors Eric T. Mortenson, Olga V. Postnova, Dmitry A. Solovyev

Publication date 13 July 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S40687-023-00379-X

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65) Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Appell, Horn and Lauricella functions (33C65)

arXiv classification

math.NTmath.RT

Abstract: String functions are important building blocks of characters of integrable highest modules over affine Kac--Moody algebras. Kac and Peterson computed string functions for affine Lie algebras of type $A_1^{(1)}$ in terms of Dedekind eta functions. We produce new relations between string functions by writing them as double-sums and then using certain symmetry relations. We evaluate the series using special double-sum formulas that express Hecke-type double-sums in terms of Appell--Lerch functions and theta functions, where we point out that Appell--Lerch functions are the building blocks of Ramanujan's classical mock theta functions.

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