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Numerical experiments on coefficients of instanton partition functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-03-22 v2

Abstract

We analyze the coefficients of partition functions of Vafa-Witten theory for the complex projective plane CP2\mathbb{CP}^2. We experimentally study the growth of the coefficients for gauge group SU(2)SU(2) and SU(3)SU(3), which are examples of mock modular forms of depth 11 and 2 respectively. We also introduce the notion of ``mock cusp form'', and study an example of weight 3 related to the SU(3)SU(3) partition function. Numerical experiments on the first 200 coefficients suggest that the coefficients of a mock modular form of weight kk grow as the coefficients of a modular form of weight kk, that is to say as nk1n^{k-1}. On the other hand the coefficients of the mock cusp form appear to grow as n3/2n^{3/2}, which exceeds the growth of classical cusp forms of weight 3. We provide bounds using saddle point analysis, which however largely exceed the experimental observation.

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@article{arxiv.2301.06711,
  title  = {Numerical experiments on coefficients of instanton partition functions},
  author = {Aradhita Chattopadhyaya and Jan Manschot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06711},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 figures, v2: minor corrections

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