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.

References

Primary source

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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