Zagier's weight 3/23/2 mock modular form

Mock modular forms have their origins in Ramanujan's pioneering work on mock theta functions. In a 1975 paper, Zagier proved certain transformation properties of the generating function of the Hurwitz class numbers $H(n)$ for the discriminant $(-n)$. In the modern framework, these results show that the generating function of $H(n)$ is a mock modular form of weight 3/2 with the theta function being the shadow. In this expository paper, we provide a detailed proof of Zagier's result.Comment: 24 page

Mock Modularity In CHL Models

Dabholkar, Murthy and Zagier (DMZ) proved that there is a canonical decomposition of a meromorphic Jacobi form of integral index for $\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{Z})$ with poles on torsion points $z\in\mathbb{Q}\tau+\mathbb{Q}$ into polar and finite parts, and showed that the finite part is a mock Jacobi form. In this paper we generalize the results of DMZ to meromorphic Jacobi forms of rational index for congruence subgroups of $\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{Z})$. As an application, we establish that a large class of single-centered black hole degeneracies in CHL models are given by the Fourier coefficients of mock Jacobi forms. In this process we refine the result of DMZ regarding the set of charges for which the single-centered black hole degeneracies are given by a mock modular form. In particular, in the case studied by DMZ, we present examples of charges for which the single-centered degeneracies are not captured by the mock modular form of the expected index.Comment: 64 Page

Class Numbers of Quadratic Fields

We present a survey of some recent results regarding the class numbers of quadratic field