School of Mathematics Seminars and Lectures

Mock Modular Forms and Quantum Black Holes

by Prof. Atish Dabholkar (CNRS, University of Paris, France)

Asia/Kolkata
Maths. Seminar Room A-369 (Colaba Campus)

Maths. Seminar Room A-369

Colaba Campus

Description
I will explain the relation between mermorphic Jacobi forms, mock Jacobi forms, and the wall-crossing phenomenon in certain problems in enumerative geometry along with the physics context of quantum black holes in which they arise. Analysis of the generating functions for quantum degeneracies of a class of black holes in string theory leads to an infinite family of meromorphic Jacobi forms. This family (and another related one) in turn furnishes a list of examples of mock modular and mock Jacobi forms. This list contains many known mock modular forms including the mock theta functions of Ramanujan, the generating function of Hurwitz-Kronecker class numbers, the mock modular form conjecturally related to the Mathieu group M24, as well as an infinite number of new examples.