Type II superstring amplitude at one-loop and transcendentality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2025-06-05 v3 Number Theory
Abstract
We calculate the four-graviton scattering amplitude in Type II superstring theory at one loop up to seventh order in the low-energy expansion through the recently developed iterated integral formalism of Modular Graph Functions (MGFs). The machinery of the novel method allows us to propose a general form of the amplitude, which suggests that the expansion is expressible in terms of single-valued multiple zeta values and logarithmic derivatives of the Riemann zeta function at positive and negative odd integers. Furthermore, we comment on the transcendental behavior of the amplitude.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.04381,
title = {Type II superstring amplitude at one-loop and transcendentality},
author = {Emiel Claasen and Mehregan Doroudiani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04381},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
6 pages; Submission includes ancillary data file; v3: Sections rearranged and minor changes - version appeared in PRL