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$T\overline T$-deformed modular forms

Number Theory 2022-10-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Certain objects of conformal field theory, for example partition functions on the rectangle and the torus, and one-point functions on the torus, are either invariant or transform simply under the modular group, properties which should be preserved under the TTT\overline T deformation. The formulation and proof of this statement in fact extents to more general functions such as TTT\overline T deformed modular and Jacobi forms. We show that the deformation acts simply on their Mellin transform, multiplying it by a universal entire function. Finally we show that Maass forms on the torus are eigenfunctions of the TTT\overline T deformation.

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@article{arxiv.2201.00478,
  title  = {$T\overline T$-deformed modular forms},
  author = {John Cardy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00478},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

19 pages. v2: section on Dirichlet series revised

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