Numerical experiments on coefficients of instanton partition functions
Abstract
We analyze the coefficients of partition functions of Vafa-Witten theory for the complex projective plane . We experimentally study the growth of the coefficients for gauge group and , which are examples of mock modular forms of depth and 2 respectively. We also introduce the notion of ``mock cusp form'', and study an example of weight 3 related to the partition function. Numerical experiments on the first 200 coefficients suggest that the coefficients of a mock modular form of weight grow as the coefficients of a modular form of weight , that is to say as . On the other hand the coefficients of the mock cusp form appear to grow as , which exceeds the growth of classical cusp forms of weight 3. We provide bounds using saddle point analysis, which however largely exceed the experimental observation.
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@article{arxiv.2301.06711,
title = {Numerical experiments on coefficients of instanton partition functions},
author = {Aradhita Chattopadhyaya and Jan Manschot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06711},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
12 figures, v2: minor corrections