Generalized Schur limit, modular differential equations and quantum monodromy traces
Abstract
We explore some aspects of the generalized Schur limit, defined in arXiv:2506.13764. Based on several examples, we conjecture that the generalized Schur limit as a function of solves a modular linear differential equation of fixed order, with coefficients depending on . We also observe in examples that for Argyres-Douglas theories of type with , the generalized Schur limit for certain negative integer values of , coincides with the trace of higher powers of the quantum monodromy operator. This hints at a more general correspondence between the wall-crossing invariant traces on the Coulomb branch and the generalized Schur limit, which is related to the Higgs branch.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.02102,
title = {Generalized Schur limit, modular differential equations and quantum monodromy traces},
author = {Anirudh Deb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.02102},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
14 pages + appendix, 9 tables, 1 figure. v2: references added, minor typos in text, Eq. (2.8), Eq. (2.10) and Table 1 corrected