Higher-level Appell functions, modular transformations, and characters

DOI10.1007/S00220-004-1280-7zbMATH Open1114.11038arXivmath/0311314OpenAlexW2064775261WikidataQ64013571 ScholiaQ64013571MaRDI QIDQ1781832FDOQ1781832

Authors: A. M. Semikhatov, A. Taorimina, I. Yu. Tipunin 

Publication date: 8 June 2005

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study modular transformation properties of a class of indefinite theta series involved in characters of infinite-dimensional Lie superalgebras. The extit{level-$ell$ Appell functions} $K_{e}ll$ satisfy open quasiperiodicity relations with additive theta-function terms emerging in translating by the ``period. Generalizing the well-known interpretation of theta functions as sections of line bundles, the $K_{e}ll$ function enters the construction of a section of a rank-$(ell+1)$ bundle $V(ell,au)$. We evaluate modular transformations of the $K_{e}ll$ functions and construct the action of an SL(2,Z) subgroup that leaves the section of $V(ell,au)$ constructed from $K_{e}ll$ invariant. Modular transformation properties of $K_{e}ll$ are applied to the affine Lie superalgebra ^sl(2|1) at rational level k>-1 and to the N=2 super-Virasoro algebra, to derive modular transformations of ``admissible characters, which are not periodic under the spectral flow and cannot therefore be rationally expressed through theta functions. This gives an example where constructing a modular group action involves extensions among representations in a nonrational conformal model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311314

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05) Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Connections of basic hypergeometric functions with quantum groups, Chevalley groups, (p)-adic groups, Hecke algebras, and related topics (33D80) Other functions coming from differential, difference and integral equations (33E30)

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