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Representations of affine superalgebras and mock theta functions II

Representation Theory 2014-02-05 v1

Abstract

We show that the normalized supercharacters of principal admissible modules, associated to each integrable atypical module over the affine Lie superalgebra sl^21\widehat{sl}_{2|1} can be modified, using Zwegers' real analytic corrections, to form an SL2(Z)SL_2(\mathbf{Z})-invariant family of functions. Using a variation of Zwegers' correction, we obtain a similar result for osp^32\widehat{osp}_{3|2}. Applying the quantum Hamiltonian reduction, this leads to new families of positive energy modules over the N=2N=2 (resp. N=3N=3) superconformal algebras with central charge c=3(12m+2M)c=3 (1-\frac{2m+2}{M}), where mZ0,MZ2m \in \mathbf{Z}_{\geq 0}, M \in \mathbf{Z}_{\geq 2}, gcd(2m+2,M)=1(2m+2,M)=1 if m>0m>0 (resp. c=32m+1Mc=-3\frac{2m+1}{M}, where mZ0,MZ2m \in \mathbf{Z}_{\geq 0}, M \in \mathbf{Z}_{\geq 2} gcd(4m+2,M)=1)(4m +2, M) =1), whose modified supercharacters form an SL2(Z)SL_2(\mathbf{Z})-invariant family of functions.

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@article{arxiv.1402.0727,
  title  = {Representations of affine superalgebras and mock theta functions II},
  author = {Victor G. Kac and Minoru Wakimoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0727},
  year   = {2014}
}