Supersymmetric Analogs of the Gordon-Andrews Identities, and Related TBA Systems

Abstract

The Gordon-Andrews identities, which generalize the Rogers-Ramanujan-Schur identities, provide product and fermionic forms for the characters of the minimal conformal field theories (CFTs) M(2,2k+1). We discuss/conjecture identities of a similar type, providing two different fermionic forms for the characters of the models SM(2,4k) in the minimal series of N=1 super-CFTs. These two forms are related to two families of thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz (TBA) systems, which are argued to be associated with the ${\hat{\varphi }}_{1,3}^{\mathrm{top}}$- and ${\hat{\varphi }}_{1,5}^{\mathrm{bot}}$-perturbations of the models SM(2,4k). Certain other q-series identities and TBA systems are also discussed, as well as a possible representation-theoretical consequence of our results, based on Andrews's generalization of the Gollnitz-Gordon theorem.

20 pages, using harvmac (b)