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Modular graph forms from equivariant iterated Eisenstein integrals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-01-18 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

The low-energy expansion of closed-string scattering amplitudes at genus one introduces infinite families of non-holomorphic modular forms called modular graph forms. Their differential and number-theoretic properties motivated Brown's alternative construction of non-holomorphic modular forms in the recent mathematics literature from so-called equivariant iterated Eisenstein integrals. In this work, we provide the first validations beyond depth one of Brown's conjecture that equivariant iterated Eisenstein integrals contain modular graph forms. Apart from a variety of examples at depth two and three, we spell out the systematics of the dictionary and make certain elements of Brown's construction fully explicit to all orders.

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@article{arxiv.2209.06772,
  title  = {Modular graph forms from equivariant iterated Eisenstein integrals},
  author = {Daniele Dorigoni and Mehregan Doroudiani and Joshua Drewitt and Martijn Hidding and Axel Kleinschmidt and Nils Matthes and Oliver Schlotterer and Bram Verbeek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06772},
  year   = {2023}
}

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45 pages; submission includes ancillary data files; v2: typos corrected / minor improvements, matches published version