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Elliptic modular graph forms I: Identities and generating series

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-09-06 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

Elliptic modular graph functions and forms (eMGFs) are defined for arbitrary graphs as natural generalizations of modular graph functions and forms obtained by including the character of an Abelian group in their Kronecker--Eisenstein series. The simplest examples of eMGFs are given by the Green function for a massless scalar field on the torus and the Zagier single-valued elliptic polylogarithms. More complicated eMGFs are produced by the non-separating degeneration of a higher genus surface to a genus one surface with punctures. eMGFs may equivalently be represented by multiple integrals over the torus of combinations of coefficients of the Kronecker--Eisenstein series, and may be assembled into generating series. These relations are exploited to derive holomorphic subgraph reduction formulas, as well as algebraic and differential identities between eMGFs and their generating series.

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@article{arxiv.2012.09198,
  title  = {Elliptic modular graph forms I: Identities and generating series},
  author = {Eric D'Hoker and Axel Kleinschmidt and Oliver Schlotterer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09198},
  year   = {2021}
}

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69 pages, v2: typos corrected, matches published version

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