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Rademacher expansion of modular integrals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-10-22 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We develop a method to evaluate integrals of non-holomorphic modular functions over the fundamental domain of the torus with modular parameter τ\tau 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 τi\tau \to i \infty, τˉxQ\bar{\tau} \to x \in \mathbb{Q}. 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 SO(16)×SO(16)\mathrm{SO}(16) \times \mathrm{SO}(16) string.

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@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)

R2 v1 2026-06-28T21:15:06.221Z