We first discuss the relationship between the SL(2;R)/U(1) supercoset and N=2
Liouville theory and make a precise correspondence between their
representations. We shall show that the discrete unitary representations of
SL(2;R)/U(1) theory correspond exactly to those massless representations of N=2
Liouville theory which are closed under modular transformations and studied in
our previous work hep-th/0311141.
It is known that toroidal partition functions of SL(2;R)/U(1) theory (2D
Black Hole) contain two parts, continuous and discrete representations. The
contribution of continuous representations is proportional to the space-time
volume and is divergent in the infinite-volume limit while the part of discrete
representations is volume-independent.
In order to see clearly the contribution of discrete representations we
consider elliptic genus which projects out the contributions of continuous
representations: making use of the SL(2;R)/U(1), we compute elliptic genera for
various non-compact space-times such as the conifold, ALE spaces, Calabi-Yau
3-folds with A_n singularities etc. We find that these elliptic genera in
general have a complex modular property and are not Jacobi forms as opposed to
the cases of compact Calabi-Yau manifolds.Comment: 39 pages, no figure; v2 references added, minor corrections; v3 typos
corrected, to appear in JHEP; v4 typos corrected in eqs. (3.22) and (3.44