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We demonstrate how formulas that express Hecke-type double-sums in terms of theta functions and Appell--Lerch functions -- the building blocks of Ramanujan's mock theta functions -- can be used to give general string function formulas for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Eric T. Mortenson

By developing a connection between partial theta functions and Appell-Lerch sums, we find and prove a formula which expresses Hecke-type double sums in terms of Appell-Lerch sums and theta functions. Not only does our formula prove…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Eric Mortenson , Dean Hickerson

Determining the explicit forms and modularity for string functions and branching coefficients for Kac--Moody algebras after Kac, Peterson, and Wakimoto is a long-standing, yet wide-open, problem and recently a connection has been made…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Stepan Konenkov , Eric T. Mortenson

We study generating functions for Lusztig's $t$-analog of weight multiplicities associated to integrable highest weight representations of the simplest affine Lie algebra $A_1^{(1)}$. At $t=1$, these reduce to the {\em string functions} of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-24 Sachin S. Sharma , Sankaran Viswanath

Kac and Wakimoto introduced the admissible highest weight representations in order to classify all modular invariant representations of the Kac--Moody algebras. For the Kac--Moody algebra $A_1^{(1)}$ the string functions of admissible…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Nikolay Borozenets , Eric T. Mortenson

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. In a pair of papers, Borozenets and Mortenson determined the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Stepan Konenkov , Eric T. Mortenson

We study $t$-analogs of string functions for integrable highest weight representations of the affine Kac-Moody algebra $A_1^{(1)}$. We obtain closed form formulas for certain $t$-string functions of levels 2 and 4. As corollaries, we obtain…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2009-05-29 Sankaran Viswanath

Kac and Wakimoto introduced the admissible highest weight representations as a conjectural classification of all modular-invariant representations of the affine Kac--Moody algebras. For the affine Kac--Moody algebra $A_1^{(1)}$ their…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Nikolay Borozenets , Eric T. Mortenson

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…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Stepan Konenkov , Eric T. Mortenson

In recent work, Hickerson and the author demonstrated that it is useful to think of Appell--Lerch sums as partial theta functions. This notion can be used to relate identities involving partial theta functions with identities involving…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Eric Mortenson

Using a heuristic that relates Appell--Lerch functions to divergent partial theta functions one can expand Hecke-type double-sums in terms of Appell--Lerch functions. We give examples where the heuristic can be used as a guide to evaluate…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Eric T. Mortenson

We generalize the string functions C_{n,r}(tau) associated with the coset ^sl(2)_k/u(1) to higher string functions A_{n,r}(tau) and B_{n,r}(tau) associated with the coset W(k)/u(1) of the W-algebra of the logarithmically extended ^sl(2)_k…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-01-30 AM Semikhatov

We study cosets of the type $H_l/U(1)^r$, where $H$ is any Lie algebra at level $l$ and rank $r$. These theories are parafermionic and their characters are related to the string functions, which are generating functions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Doron Gepner

We use a specialization of Ramanujan's ${}_1\psi_1$ summation to give a new proof of a recent formula of Hickerson and Mortenson which expands a special family of Hecke-type double sums in terms of Appell-Lerch sums and theta functions.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Eric Mortenson

In this paper we derive two bosonic (alternating sign) formulas for branching functions for general affine Kac-Moody Lie algebra $\g$. Both formulas are given in terms of the Weyl group and string functions of $\g$.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. Feigin

We express recent double-sums studied by Wang, Yee, and Liu in terms of two types of Hecke-type double-sum building blocks. When possible we determine the (mock) modularity. We also express a recent $q$-hypergeometric function of Andrews as…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Eric T. Mortenson , Ankit Sahu

Motivated by the works of Liu, we provide a unified approach to find Appell-Lerch series and Hecke-type series representations for mock theta functions. We establish a number of parameterized identities with two parameters $a$ and $b$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Dandan Chen , Liuquan Wang

In recent work where Matsusaka generalizes the relationship between Habiro-type series and false theta functions after Hikami, five families of Hecke-type double-sums of the form \begin{equation*} \left( \sum_{r,s\ge 0…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Eric T. Mortenson

The level two string functions are calculated exactly for all simply laced Lie algebras, using a ladder coset construction. These are the characters of cosets of the type $G/U(1)^r$, where $G$ is the algebra at level two and $r$ is its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Genish , D. Gepner

The recursion relations of branching coefficients $k_{\xi}^{(\mu)}$ for a module $L_{\frak{g}\downarrow \frak{h}}^{\mu}$ reduced to a Cartan subalgebra $\frak{h}$ are transformed in order to place the recursion shifts $\gamma \in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-15 Petr Kulish , Vladimir Lyakhovsky
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