Counterexamples to Zagier's Duality Conjecture on Nahm Sums
Abstract
Given any positive integer , Nahm's problem is to determine all rational positive definite matrix , -dimensional rational vector and rational scalar such that the rank Nahm sum associated with is modular. Around 2007, Zagier conjectured that if the rank Nahm sum for is modular, then so is the dual Nahm sum associated with . We construct some explicit rank four Nahm sums which are modular while their duals are not modular. This provides counterexamples to Zagier's duality conjecture.
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@article{arxiv.2411.09701,
title = {Counterexamples to Zagier's Duality Conjecture on Nahm Sums},
author = {Liuquan Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.09701},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Comments are welcome. This is a simplified version. The main changes from v3 are as follows: We deleted the first identity from Theorem 1.3 since it does not serve as counterexamples. We also remove the last section "Concluding Remarks" for the same reason