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Theta series, wall-crossing and quantum dilogarithm identities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-07-28 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Motivated by mathematical structures which arise in string vacua and gauge theories with N=2 supersymmetry, we study the properties of certain generalized theta series which appear as Fourier coefficients of functions on a twisted torus. In Calabi-Yau string vacua, such theta series encode instanton corrections from kk Neveu-Schwarz five-branes. The theta series are determined by vector-valued wave-functions, and in this work we obtain the transformation of these wave-functions induced by Kontsevich-Soibelman symplectomorphisms. This effectively provides a quantum version of these transformations, where the quantization parameter is inversely proportional to the five-brane charge kk. Consistency with wall-crossing implies a new five-term relation for Faddeev's quantum dilogarithm Φb\Phi_b at b=1b=1, which we prove. By allowing the torus to be non-commutative, we obtain a more general five-term relation valid for arbitrary bb and kk, which may be relevant for the physics of five-branes at finite chemical potential for angular momentum.

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@article{arxiv.1511.02892,
  title  = {Theta series, wall-crossing and quantum dilogarithm identities},
  author = {Sergei Alexandrov and Boris Pioline},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.02892},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

26 pages; v2: added discussion on relation to complex Chern-Simons, misprints corrected

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