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Generalized Schur limit, modular differential equations and quantum monodromy traces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-02-25 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

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 α\alpha solves a modular linear differential equation of fixed order, with coefficients depending on α\alpha. We also observe in examples that for Argyres-Douglas theories of type (A1,G)(A_1,G) with G=An,DnG=A_n,D_n, the generalized Schur limit for certain negative integer values of α\alpha, 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

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:04:29.495Z