  We discuss the homological aspects of the connection between quantum string
generating function and the formal power series associated to the dimensions of
chains and homologies of suitable Lie algebras. Our analysis can be considered
as a new straightforward application of the machinery of modular forms and
spectral functions (with values in the congruence subgroup of $SL(2,{\mathbb
Z})$) to the partition functions of Lagrangian branes, refined vertex and open
string partition functions, represented by means of formal power series that
encode Lie algebra properties. The common feature in our examples lies in the
modular properties of the characters of certain representations of the
pertinent affine Lie algebras and in the role of Selberg-type spectral
functions of an hyperbolic three-geometry associated with $q$-series in the
computation of the string amplitudes.
