Rademacher expansion of modular integrals
Abstract
We develop a method to evaluate integrals of non-holomorphic modular functions over the fundamental domain of the torus with modular parameter analytically. It proceeds in two steps: first the integral is transformed to a Lorentzian contour by the same strategy that leads to the Lorentzian inversion formula in CFT, and then we apply a two-dimensional version of the Rademacher expansion. This computes the integral in terms of an expansion sensitive to the singular behaviour of the integrand near all the Lorentzian cusps , . We apply this technique to a variety of examples such as the evaluation of string one-loop partition functions, where it leads to the first analytic formula for the cosmological constants of the bosonic string and the string.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2501.13827,
title = {Rademacher expansion of modular integrals},
author = {Marco Maria Baccianti and Jeevan Chandra and Lorenz Eberhardt and Thomas Hartman and Sebastian Mizera},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13827},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
40 pages + appendices. v2 (references added)