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Convolution identities for divisor sums and modular forms

Number Theory 2023-12-04 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We prove exact identities for convolution sums of divisor functions of the form n1Z{0,n}φ(n1,nn1)σ2m1(n1)σ2m2(nn1)\sum_{n_1 \in \mathbb{Z} \smallsetminus \{0,n\}}\varphi(n_1,n-n_1)\sigma_{2m_1}(n_1)\sigma_{2m_2}(n-n_1) where φ(n1,n2)\varphi(n_1,n_2) is a Laurent polynomial with logarithms for which the sum is absolutely convergent. Such identities are motivated by computations in string theory and prove and generalize a conjecture of Chester, Green, Pufu, Wang, and Wen from \cite{CGPWW}. Originally, it was suspected that such sums, suitably extended to n1{0,n}n_1\in\{0,n\} should vanish, but in this paper we find that in general they give Fourier coefficients of holomorphic cusp forms.

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@article{arxiv.2312.00722,
  title  = {Convolution identities for divisor sums and modular forms},
  author = {Ksenia Fedosova and Kim Klinger-Logan and Danylo Radchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.00722},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages

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