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Higher Depth False Modular Forms

Number Theory 2022-06-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

False theta functions are functions that are closely related to classical theta functions and mock theta functions. In this paper, we study their modular properties at all ranks by forming modular completions analogous to modular completions of indefinite theta functions of any signature and thereby develop a structure parallel to the recently developed theory of higher depth mock modular forms. We then demonstrate this theoretical base on a number of examples up to depth three coming from characters of modules for the vertex algebra W0(p)AnW^0(p)_{A_n}, 1n31 \leq n \leq 3, and from Z^\hat{Z}-invariants of 33-manifolds associated with gauge group SU(3)\mathrm{SU}(3).

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@article{arxiv.2109.00394,
  title  = {Higher Depth False Modular Forms},
  author = {Kathrin Bringmann and Jonas Kaszian and Antun Milas and Caner Nazaroglu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00394},
  year   = {2022}
}

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40 pages; v2: Brief comments and clarifications added. To appear in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics