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Towards Motivic Coactions at Genus One from Zeta Generators

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-06 v2 Algebraic Geometry Number Theory

Abstract

The motivic coaction of multiple zeta values and multiple polylogarithms encodes both structural insights on and computational methods for scattering amplitudes in a variety of quantum field theories and in string theory. In this work, we propose coaction formulae for iterated integrals over holomorphic Eisenstein series that arise from configuration-space integrals at genus one. Our proposal is motivated by formal similarities between the motivic coaction and the single-valued map of multiple polylogarithms at genus zero that are exposed in their recent reformulations via zeta generators. The genus-one coaction of this work is then proposed by analogies with the construction of single-valued iterated Eisenstein integrals via zeta generators at genus one. We show that our proposal exhibits the expected properties of a coaction and deduce ff-alphabet decompositions of the multiple modular values obtained from regularized limits.

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@article{arxiv.2508.02800,
  title  = {Towards Motivic Coactions at Genus One from Zeta Generators},
  author = {Axel Kleinschmidt and Franziska Porkert and Oliver Schlotterer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.02800},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

46 + 17 pages; v2: minor clarifications in several places, version to be published in JHEP