Mock modular forms and quantum modular forms

2015 ◽  
Vol 144 (6) ◽  
pp. 2337-2349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dohoon Choi ◽  
Subong Lim ◽  
Robert C. Rhoades
Keyword(s):  
Modular Forms ◽  
Quantum Modular Forms ◽  
Mock Modular Forms

Asymptotics and Ramanujan's mock theta functions: then and now

2019 ◽  
Vol 378 (2163) ◽  
pp. 20180448
Author(s):  
Amanda Folsom
Keyword(s):  
Modular Forms ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Scientific Meeting ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Mock Theta Functions ◽  
Maass Forms ◽  
Quantum Modular Forms ◽  
Mock Modular Forms ◽  
New Interpretation

This article is in commemoration of Ramanujan's election as Fellow of The Royal Society 100 years ago, as celebrated at the October 2018 scientific meeting at the Royal Society in London. Ramanujan's last letter to Hardy, written shortly after his election, surrounds his mock theta functions. While these functions have been of great importance and interest in the decades following Ramanujan's death in 1920, it was unclear how exactly they fit into the theory of modular forms—Dyson called this ‘a challenge for the future’ at another centenary conference in Illinois in 1987, honouring the 100th anniversary of Ramanujan's birth. In the early 2000s, Zwegers finally recognized that Ramanujan had discovered glimpses of special families of non-holomorphic modular forms, which we now know to be Bruinier and Funke's harmonic Maass forms from 2004, the holomorphic parts of which are called mock modular forms. As of a few years ago, a fundamental question from Ramanujan's last letter remained, on a certain asymptotic relationship between mock theta functions and ordinary modular forms. The author, with Ono and Rhoades, revisited Ramanujan's asymptotic claim, and established a connection between mock theta functions and quantum modular forms, which were not defined until 90 years later in 2010 by Zagier. Here, we bring together past and present, and study the relationships between mock modular forms and quantum modular forms, with Ramanujan's mock theta functions as motivation. In particular, we highlight recent work of Bringmann–Rolen, Choi–Lim–Rhoades and Griffin–Ono–Rolen in our discussion. This article is largely expository, but not exclusively: we also establish a new interpretation of Ramanujan's radial asymptotic limits in the subject of topology. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Srinivasa Ramanujan: in celebration of the centenary of his election as FRS’.

scholarly journals Higher depth mock theta functions and q-hypergeometric series

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Males ◽  
Andreas Mono ◽  
Larry Rolen
Keyword(s):  
Theta Function ◽  
Modular Forms ◽  
Hypergeometric Series ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Mock Theta Function ◽  
Mock Theta Functions ◽  
Maass Forms ◽  
Mock Modular Forms ◽  
Harmonic Maass Forms

Abstract In the theory of harmonic Maaß forms and mock modular forms, mock theta functions are distinguished examples which arose from q-hypergeometric examples of Ramanujan. Recently, there has been a body of work on higher depth mock modular forms. Here, we introduce distinguished examples of these forms, which we call higher depth mock theta functions, and develop q-hypergeometric expressions for them. We provide three examples of mock theta functions of depth two, each arising by multiplying a classical mock theta function with a certain specialization of a universal mock theta function. In addition, we give their modular completions, and relate each to a q-hypergeometric series.

scholarly journals Mocking the u-plane integral

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Korpas ◽  
Jan Manschot ◽  
Gregory W. Moore ◽  
Iurii Nidaiev
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Behavior ◽  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Entire Function ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Modular Forms ◽  
Correlation Functions ◽  
Coulomb Branch ◽  
Mock Modular Forms ◽  
Donaldson Invariants

AbstractThe u-plane integral is the contribution of the Coulomb branch to correlation functions of $${\mathcal {N}}=2$$ N = 2 gauge theory on a compact four-manifold. We consider the u-plane integral for correlators of point and surface observables of topologically twisted theories with gauge group $$\mathrm{SU}(2)$$ SU ( 2 ) , for an arbitrary four-manifold with $$(b_1,b_2^+)=(0,1)$$ ( b 1 , b 2 + ) = ( 0 , 1 ) . The u-plane contribution equals the full correlator in the absence of Seiberg–Witten contributions at strong coupling, and coincides with the mathematically defined Donaldson invariants in such cases. We demonstrate that the u-plane correlators are efficiently determined using mock modular forms for point observables, and Appell–Lerch sums for surface observables. We use these results to discuss the asymptotic behavior of correlators as function of the number of observables. Our findings suggest that the vev of exponentiated point and surface observables is an entire function of the fugacities.

scholarly journals Partial theta functions and mock modular forms as q-hypergeometric series

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 295-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Bringmann ◽  
Amanda Folsom ◽  
Robert C. Rhoades
Keyword(s):  
Modular Forms ◽  
Hypergeometric Series ◽  
Theta Functions ◽  
Mock Modular Forms ◽  
Partial Theta Functions

scholarly journals Partition identities with mixed mock modular forms

2016 ◽  
Vol 158 ◽  
pp. 356-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
George E. Andrews ◽  
Stephen Hill
Keyword(s):  
Modular Forms ◽  
Partition Identities ◽  
Mock Modular Forms ◽  
Mixed Mock Modular Forms

scholarly journals Quantum modular forms and plumbing graphs of 3-manifolds

2020 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 105145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Bringmann ◽  
Karl Mahlburg ◽  
Antun Milas
Keyword(s):  
Modular Forms ◽  
Quantum Modular Forms
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