Quantum Modular Forms and Resurgence

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Main Authors: McSpirit, Eleanor, Rolen, Larry
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Published: 2025
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author McSpirit, Eleanor
Rolen, Larry
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Rolen, Larry
contents In 2010, Zagier described a new phenomenon which he called quantum modularity. This connected various examples coming from disparate fields which exhibit near-modular behavior. In the fifteen years since, Zagier's philosophy has informed new developments in areas such as knot theory, 3-dimensional topology, combinatorics, and physics. More recently, the concept of holomorphic quantum modularity has emerged, pointing to a clearer structure for Zagier's original examples. These new developments suggest connections to perturbative quantum field theory, like the theory of resurgence. In 2024, Fantini and Rella proposed a means of codifying some of these connections under their program of ``modular resurgence." Inspired by their work, we unify all of the examples of quantum modular forms in Zagier's original paper under the umbrella of resurgence. In doing so, we strengthen known quantum modularity results for holomorphic Eichler integrals of half-integer weight modular forms. Our main addition to the literature is a collection of median resummation type results which show that the examples of holomorphic quantum modular forms we consider can be recovered from their asymptotics, or the asymptotics of closely related functions.
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spellingShingle Quantum Modular Forms and Resurgence
McSpirit, Eleanor
Rolen, Larry
Number Theory
11F37, 40G10
In 2010, Zagier described a new phenomenon which he called quantum modularity. This connected various examples coming from disparate fields which exhibit near-modular behavior. In the fifteen years since, Zagier's philosophy has informed new developments in areas such as knot theory, 3-dimensional topology, combinatorics, and physics. More recently, the concept of holomorphic quantum modularity has emerged, pointing to a clearer structure for Zagier's original examples. These new developments suggest connections to perturbative quantum field theory, like the theory of resurgence. In 2024, Fantini and Rella proposed a means of codifying some of these connections under their program of ``modular resurgence." Inspired by their work, we unify all of the examples of quantum modular forms in Zagier's original paper under the umbrella of resurgence. In doing so, we strengthen known quantum modularity results for holomorphic Eichler integrals of half-integer weight modular forms. Our main addition to the literature is a collection of median resummation type results which show that the examples of holomorphic quantum modular forms we consider can be recovered from their asymptotics, or the asymptotics of closely related functions.
title Quantum Modular Forms and Resurgence
topic Number Theory
11F37, 40G10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00799