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A Trinity of the Borcherds Φ-Function

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Symmetries, Integrable Systems and Representations

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We discuss a trinity, i.e., three distinct expressions, of the Borcherds Φ-function on the analogy of the trinity of the Dedekind η-function.

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The author is partially supported by JSPS Grants-in-Aid (B) 23340017, (A) 22244003, (S) 22224001.

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Yoshikawa, KI. (2013). A Trinity of the Borcherds Φ-Function. In: Iohara, K., Morier-Genoud, S., Rémy, B. (eds) Symmetries, Integrable Systems and Representations. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 40. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4863-0_25

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