Vector-valued modular functions for the modular group and the hypergeometric equation

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2007.V1.N4.A2MaRDI QIDQ959480zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. Bántay, Terry Gannon

Publication date 11 December 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2467

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular and automorphic functions (11F03) Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms (11F37) Classical hypergeometric functions, ({}_2F_1) (33C05)

Abstract: A general theory of vector-valued modular functions, holomorphic in the upper half-plane, is presented for finite dimensional representations of the modular group. This also provides a description of vector-valued modular forms of arbitrary half-integer weight. It is shown that the space of these modular functions is spanned, as a module over the polynomials in J, by the columns of a matrix that satisfies an abstract hypergeometric equation, providing a simple solution of the Riemann-Hilbert problem for representations of the modular group. Restrictions on the coefficients of this differential equation implied by analyticity are discussed, and an inversion formula is presented that allows the determination of an arbitrary vector-valued modular function from its singular behavior. Questions of rationality and positivity of expansion coefficients are addressed. Closed expressions for the number of vector-valued modular forms of half-integer weight are given, and the general theory is illustrated on simple examples.

Review text

A general theory of vector-valued modular functions, holomorphic in the upper half-plane, is presented for finite dimensional representations of the modular group. This also provides a description of vector-valued modular forms of arbitrary half-integer weight. It is shown that the space of these modular functions is spanned, as a module over the polynomials in \(J\), by the columns of a matrix that satisfies an abstract hypergeometric equation, providing a simple solution of the Riemann-Hilbert problem for representations of the modular group. Restrictions on the coefficients of this differential equation implied by analyticity are discussed, and an inversion formula is presented that allows the determination of an arbitrary vector-valued modular function from its singular behavior. Questions of rationality and positivity of expansion coefficients are addressed. Closed expressions for the number of vector-valued modular forms of half-integer weight are given, and the general theory is illustrated on simple examples.

Recommendations

• Vector-valued modular forms
• Hypergeometric series, modular linear differential equations and vector-valued modular forms
• VECTOR-VALUED MODULAR FORMS AND LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS
• The theory of vector-valued modular forms for the modular group
• Vector-valued modular forms associated to linear ordinary differential equations.

Cited in

(43)

• Classical automorphic forms and hypergeometric functions
• On 2d conformal field theories with two characters
• Modular data for the extended Haagerup subfactor
• Vector-valued modular forms on finite upper half planes
• Discreteness and integrality in conformal field theory
• \(\widehat{sl(2)}\) decomposition of denominator formulae of some BKM Lie superalgebras
• Holomorphic modular bootstrap revisited
• Modular flavor symmetry and vector-valued modular forms
• Character vectors of strongly regular vertex operator algebras
• The most irrational rational theories
• Towards a classification of two-character rational conformal field theories
• Modular differential equations for characters of RCFT
• Hypergeometric series, modular linear differential equations and vector-valued modular forms
• The theory of vector-valued modular forms for the modular group
• On classification of extremal non-holomorphic conformal field theories
• Vector-valued modular forms and the modular orbifold of elliptic curves
• Classification of extremal vertex operator algebras with two simple modules
• A trace formula for vector-valued modular forms
• Vector-valued modular forms associated to linear ordinary differential equations.
• Irreducible vector-valued modular forms of dimension less than six
• The dimension of spaces of vector-valued modular forms of integer weight
• ON THE EXISTENCE OF VECTOR-VALUED AUTOMORPHIC FORMS
• Period relations for Riemann surfaces with many automorphisms
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7355452 (Why is no real title available?)
• Constructions of vector-valued modular forms of rank four and level one
• Equivariant functions and vector-valued modular forms
• Vector-valued modular forms
• On classification of fermionic rational conformal field theories
• Classification of unitary RCFTs with two primaries and central charge less than 25
• Meromorphic cosets and the classification of three-character CFT
• Modular differential equations with movable poles and admissible RCFT characters
• The exoticness and realisability of twisted Haagerup--Izumi modular data
• A non-unitary bulk-boundary correspondence: non-unitary Haagerup RCFTs from S-fold SCFTs
• q-expansions of vector-valued modular forms of negative weight
• Modular forms in the spectral action of Bianchi IX gravitational instantons
• The hyperplane string, RCFTs, and the swampland
• The analytic theory of vectorial Drinfeld modular forms
• Modular exercises for four-point blocks. I
• The unbounded denominators conjecture
• Results on the non-vanishing of derivatives of L-functions of vector-valued modular forms
• Quantum geometry and mock modularity
• L-series for vector-valued weakly holomorphic modular forms and converse theorems
• Rational CFT with three characters: the quasi-character approach

This page was built for publication: Vector-valued modular functions for the modular group and the hypergeometric equation

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q959480)