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From Modular Graph Forms to Iterated Integrals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-09-11 v1

Abstract

Modular graph forms are a class of non-holomorphic modular forms that arise in the low-energy expansion of genus-one closed string amplitudes. In this work, we introduce a systematic procedure to convert lattice-sum representations of modular graph forms into iterated integrals of holomorphic Eisenstein series and provide a \textsc{Mathematica} package that implements all modular graph form topologies up to four vertices. To achieve this, we introduce specific tree-representations of modular graph forms. The presented method enables the conversion of the integrand of the four-graviton one-loop superstring amplitude at eighth order in the inverse string tension α8\alpha^{\prime 8}, which we use to calculate the α8ζ3ζ5\alpha^{\prime 8}\zeta_3\zeta_5 contribution to the analytic part of the amplitude.

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@article{arxiv.2502.05531,
  title  = {From Modular Graph Forms to Iterated Integrals},
  author = {Emiel Claasen and Mehregan Doroudiani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.05531},
  year   = {2025}
}

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