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New polar-finite forms of generalized Euler identities for $A_{1}^{(1)}$-string functions and mock theta conjecture-like identities

Number Theory 2026-02-03 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

Determining the explicit forms and modularity for string functions and branching coefficients for Kac--Moody algebras after Kac, Peterson, and Wakimoto is an important problem. For positive admissible-level string functions for the affine Kac--Moody algebra A1(1)A_{1}^{(1)}, very little is known. Here we apply the notion of quasi-periodicity to a generalized Euler identity of Schilling and Warnaar for the affine Kac--Moody algebra A1(1)A_{1}^{(1)}. For integral-level string functions the classical periodicity reduces the infinite sum of string functions in the generalized Euler identity to a finite sum of string functions with theta function coefficients. For admissible-level, we similarly reduce to an analogous finite sum of string functions, but we also gain an additional finite sum of the form \begin{equation*} \sum_{i}\Phi_{i}(q)\Psi_{i}(q), \end{equation*} where the Φi(q)\Phi_i(q)'s are modular and depend only on the spin and the Ψi(q)\Psi_{i}(q)'s are (mixed) mock modular Hecke-type double-sums and depend only on the quantum number. For levels 1/21/2, 1/31/3, and 2/32/3, we shall also see that the Ψi(q)\Psi_{i}(q)'s give us families of mock theta conjecture-like identities for symmetric Hecke-type double-sums. Our work here focuses on evaluating the Ψi(q)\Psi_{i}(q)'s, and our expressions utilize Ramanujan's second-order mock theta function μ2(q)\mu_2(q) and third-order mock theta functions f3(q)f_{3}(q), ω3(q)\omega_3(q), ψ3(q)\psi_{3}(q), and χ3(q)\chi_3(q).

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@article{arxiv.2602.02242,
  title  = {New polar-finite forms of generalized Euler identities for $A_{1}^{(1)}$-string functions and mock theta conjecture-like identities},
  author = {Stepan Konenkov and Eric T. Mortenson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02242},
  year   = {2026}
}

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