International Conference in
Number Theory and Physics
Mini Course - Prof.
Sameer Murthy (
King's College)
Class 4
Quantum Black Holes,
Modular Forms and Mock Modular Forms In the quantum theory of black holes in superstring theory, the physical problem of counting the number of quarter-BPS dyonic states of a given charge has led to the study of
Fourier coefficients of certain meromorphic Siegel modular forms and to the question of the modular nature of the corresponding generating functions. These Fourier coefficients have a wall-crossing behavior which seems to destroy modularity. In this mini-course I shall explain that these generating functions belong to a class of functions called mock modular forms. I shall discuss the physical consequences of this statement, and interesting mathematical examples that arise from this construction. This is based on joint work with Atish Dabholkar and
Don Zagier.
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This school and conference aims to bring together mathematicians (from number theory and algebraic geometry,…) and theoretical physicists (from Quantum
Chaos,
QFT and
String Theory,…). The first week will be aimed at introductory minicourses and introductory lectures in several topics on Number Theory and Physics. And the second week will focus on research lectures and advanced level minicourses aimed at graduate students and researchers at all levels.
The main purpose of the school and conference is to bring together leading researchers in number theory and physics, to foster further mutually beneficial interaction between Number Theory and Physics.
The school will be made of a series of plenary lectures, short lectures and minicourses in different subjects on Number Theory and Physics. One of the aims of this school is to discuss the recent developments in a wide range of topics at the crossroads between Number Theory and Physics. The main topics to be covered in this conference are:
- Number Theory and
Random Matrices
- Number Theory over
Function Fields and
Riemann Hypothesis for
Curves
- Modular Forms, Mock Modular Forms and Generalizations
- String Theory,
String dualities and automorphic forms
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Quantum Field Theory for
Mathematicians and
Number Theorists
- Quantum Chaos,
Arithmetic Quantum Chaos and Number Theory
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Noncommutative Geometry in Number Theory and Physics
- Polylogarithms,
Multiple Zeta Values and Pertubative Physics
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Mirror Symmetry, Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Zeta Functions
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Prime Numbers and recent developments
- AdS/
CFT and arithmetic
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- published: 01 Jul 2015
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