Cyclic products of higher-genus Szeg\"o kernels, modular tensors and polylogarithms
Abstract
A wealth of information on multiloop string amplitudes is encoded in fermionic two-point functions known as Szeg\"o kernels. In this paper we show that cyclic products of any number of Szeg\"o kernels on a Riemann surface of arbitrary genus may be decomposed into linear combinations of modular tensors on moduli space that carry all the dependence on the spin structure . The -independent coefficients in these combinations carry all the dependence on the marked points and are composed of the integration kernels of higher-genus polylogarithms. We determine the antiholomorphic moduli derivatives of the -dependent modular tensors.
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@article{arxiv.2308.05044,
title = {Cyclic products of higher-genus Szeg\"o kernels, modular tensors and polylogarithms},
author = {Eric D'Hoker and Martijn Hidding and Oliver Schlotterer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.05044},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
5.5 + 1.5 pages; v2: version to be published in Physics Review Letters, merged with the supplemental material as appendices; v3: corrections in and below equations (57), (58) of appendix D relative to v2