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arXiv · 2508.12468

Some New Modular Rank Four Nahm Sums as Lift-dual of Rank Three Examples

Abstract

We find nine new sets of rank four Nahm sums associated with nine different numeric matrices which are likely to be modular. They are discovered by applying the lift-dual operation to some modular rank three Nahm sums in the works of Zagier and the authors. We prove the modularity of four sets of these Nahm sums by establishing Rogers--Ramanujan type identities which express them as modular infinite products. We use various $q$-series techniques including the constant term method and Bailey pairs to prove these identities. Meanwhile, we present some conjectural identities expressing several Nahm sums as modular infinite products.

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Zhineng Cao, Liuquan Wang. 2025-08-17. Some New Modular Rank Four Nahm Sums as Lift-dual of Rank Three Examples. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12468

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