Folklore modularity conjecture for ADET Cartan-matrix Nahm sums

Let XX and YY be Dynkin diagrams of ADET type, with Cartan matrices C(X)\mathcal{C}(X) and C(Y)\mathcal{C}(Y), ranks r(X)r(X) and r(Y)r(Y), and Coxeter numbers h(X)h(X) and h(Y)h(Y). Define

M(X,Y)=C(X)C(Y)1,C(X,Y)=124r(X)r(Y)h(X)h(X)+h(Y).M(X,Y)=\mathcal{C}(X)\otimes\mathcal{C}(Y)^{-1},\qquad C(X,Y)=-\frac{1}{24}\frac{r(X)r(Y)h(X)}{h(X)+h(Y)}.

Here \otimes denotes the Kronecker product. Folklore modularity conjecture. The Nahm sum associated with (M(X,Y),0,C(X,Y))(M(X,Y),0,C(X,Y)) is modular. This conjecture provides a systematic source of modular Nahm sums from Cartan matrices and is motivated by fermionic character formulas for coset two-dimensional conformal field theories. Several special cases are known, but the general ADET statement is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Liuquan Wang and Shangwen Wang, “Modular Nahm Sums for the Inverse Cartan Matrix of Type D_r”, arXiv:2607.08606 (2026).

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