Vafa-Witten invariants from modular anomaly

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2021.V15.N1.A4MaRDI QIDQ2227771zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergei Alexandrov

Publication date 15 February 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03680

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) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35)

Abstract: Recently, a universal formula for a non-holomorphic modular completion of the generating functions of refined BPS indices in various theories with $N=2$ supersymmetry has been suggested. It expresses the completion through the holomorphic generating functions of lower ranks. Here we show that for $U(N)$ Vafa-Witten theory on Hirzebruch and del Pezzo surfaces this formula can be used to extract the holomorphic functions themselves, thereby providing the Betti numbers of instanton moduli spaces on such surfaces. As a result, we derive a closed formula for the generating functions and their completions for all $N$. Besides, our construction reveals in a simple way instances of fiber-base duality, which can be used to derive new non-trivial identities for generalized Appell functions. It also suggests the existence of new invariants, whose meaning however remains obscure.

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