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SUMMARY:Quantum Modular Forms as three-manifolds invariants - Miranda Chen
 g (Amsterdam)
DTSTART:20210128T130000Z
DTEND:20210128T140000Z
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CONTACT:Pietro Benetti Genolini
DESCRIPTION:Quantum modular forms are\, roughly speaking\, functions that 
 have certain weak modular properties. Mock modular forms and false theta f
 unctions are examples of holomorphic functions on the upper-half plane whi
 ch lead to quantum modular forms. Generalising the Witten-Reshetikhin-Tura
 ev invariants for three-manifolds which arise from Chern-Simons theory\, a
  new topological invariant named homological blocks which arise from 6d SC
 FT have been proposed a few years ago. My talk aims to explain the recent 
 observations on the quantum modular properties of the homological blocks\,
  as well as the relation to logarithmic vertex algebras. The talk will be 
 based on a series of work in collaboration with Sungbong Chun\, Boris Feig
 in\, Francesca Ferrari\, Sergei Gukov\, Sarah Harrison\, and Gabriele Sgro
 i.
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
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