Five-point Type IIB String Amplitudes at One Loop
Abstract
Massless type IIB superstring amplitudes are organized according to the number of external states and their charge under the R-symmetry of type IIB supergravity. In this work, we analyze the low-energy expansion of one-loop five-point amplitudes in all charge sectors, focusing on the representative processes involving five gravitons and four gravitons with one dilaton. We compute the one-loop contributions to the moduli-dependent couplings in the type IIB effective action up to the and interactions. The results are consistent with -duality constraints in every charge sector and exhibit rich arithmetic structure, including single-valued multiple zeta values, affine linear combinations of logarithmic derivatives of the Riemann zeta function at odd integers, and a new constant of currently unknown nature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.19979,
title = {Five-point Type IIB String Amplitudes at One Loop},
author = {Emiel Claasen and Mehregan Doroudiani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19979},
year = {2026}
}
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36 pages + appendices