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Identities on Zagier's rank two examples for Nahm's problem

Number Theory 2024-05-07 v3 Classical Analysis and ODEs Combinatorics

Abstract

Let r1r\geq 1 be a positive integer, AA a real positive definite symmetric r×rr\times r matrix, BB a vector of length rr, and CC a scalar. Nahm's problem is to describe all such A,BA,B and CC with rational entries for which a specific rr-fold qq-hypergeometric series (denoted by fA,B,C(q)f_{A,B,C}(q)) involving the parameters A,B,CA,B,C is modular. When the rank r=2r=2, Zagier provided eleven sets of examples of (A,B,C)(A,B,C) for which fA,B,C(q)f_{A,B,C}(q) is likely to be modular. We present a number of Rogers--Ramanujan type identities involving double sums, which give modular representations for Zagier's rank two examples. Together with several known cases in the literature, we verified ten of Zagier's examples and give conjectural identities for the remaining example.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2210.10748,
  title  = {Identities on Zagier's rank two examples for Nahm's problem},
  author = {Liuquan Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10748},
  year   = {2024}
}

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34 pages. Several changes have been made after the second version. Comments are welcome

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