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Elliptic modular graph forms, equivariant iterated integrals and single-valued elliptic polylogarithms

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-18 v2 Algebraic Geometry Number Theory

Abstract

The low-energy expansion of genus-one string amplitudes produces infinite families of non-holomorphic modular forms after each step of integrating over a point on the torus worldsheet which are known as elliptic modular graph forms (eMGFs). We solve the differential equations of eMGFs depending on a single point zz and the modular parameter τ\tau via iterated integrals over holomorphic modular forms which individually transform inhomogeneously under SL2(Z){\rm SL}_2(\mathbb Z). Suitable generating series of these iterated integrals over τ\tau, their complex conjugates and single-valued multiple zeta values (svMZVs) are combined to attain equivariant transformations under SL2(Z){\rm SL}_2(\mathbb Z) such that their components are modular forms. Our generating series of equivariant iterated integrals for eMGFs is related to elliptic multiple polylogarithms (eMPLs) through a gauge transform of the flat Calaque-Enriquez-Etingof connection. By converting iterated τ\tau-integrals to iterated integrals over points on a torus, we arrive at an explicit construction of single-valued eMPLs where all the monodromies in the points cancel. Each single-valued eMPL depending on a single point zz is found to be a finite combination of meromorphic eMPLs, their complex conjugates, svMZVs and equivariant iterated Eisenstein integrals. Our generating series determines the latter two admixtures via so-called zeta generators and Tsunogai derivations which act on the two generators xx, yy of a free Lie algebra and where the coefficients of words in x,yx,y define the single-valued eMPLs.

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@article{arxiv.2511.15883,
  title  = {Elliptic modular graph forms, equivariant iterated integrals and single-valued elliptic polylogarithms},
  author = {Oliver Schlotterer and Yoann Sohnle and Yi-Xiao Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.15883},
  year   = {2025}
}

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95 + 29 pages incl. a 11-page standalone readable summary; v2: various typos fixed

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