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We explore various aspects of supersymmetric black hole partition functions in four-dimensional toroidally compactified heterotic string theory. These functions suffer from divergences owing to the hyperbolic nature of the charge lattice in this theory, which prevents them from having well-defined modular transformation properties. In order to rectify this, we regularize these functions by converting the divergent series into indefinite theta functions, thereby obtaining fully regulated single-centered black hole partitions functions.
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Cardoso, G.L., Cirafici, M., Jorge, R. et al. Indefinite theta functions and black hole partition functions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 19 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2014)019
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