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In this Letter, we provide evidence for a new double-copy structure in one-loop amplitudes of the open superstring. Their integrands with respect to the moduli space of genus-one surfaces are cast into a form where gauge-invariant kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-11 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

Modular graph functions (MGFs) are $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$-invariant functions on the Poincar\'e upper half-plane associated with Feynman graphs of a conformal scalar field on a torus. The low-energy expansion of genus-one superstring…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Eric D'Hoker , Nicholas Geiser

We reexamine genus one super-Green functions with general boundary conditions twisted by $(\alpha, \beta)$ for $(\sigma, \tau)$ directions in the eigenmode expansion and derive expressions as infinite series of hypergeometric functions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-30 H. Itoyama , Kohei Yano

We study celestial amplitudes in string theory at one-loop. Celestial amplitudes describe scattering processes of boost eigenstates and relate to amplitudes in the more standard basis of momentum eigenstates through a Mellin transform. They…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-10 Laura Donnay , Gaston Giribet , Hernán González , Andrea Puhm , Francisco Rojas

We relate one-loop scattering amplitudes of massless open- and closed-string states at the level of their low-energy expansion. The modular graph functions resulting from integration over closed-string punctures are observed to follow from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-05 Johannes Broedel , Oliver Schlotterer , Federico Zerbini

In this final part of a series of three papers, we will assemble supersymmetric expressions for one-loop correlators in pure-spinor superspace that are BRST invariant, local, and single valued. A key driving force in this construction is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

Loop amplitudes in string theories reduce to those of gauge theories and (super)gravity in their worldline description as the inverse string tension $\alpha'$ tends to zero. The appearance of reducible diagrams in these $\alpha' \rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Filippo Maria Balli , Alex Edison , Oliver Schlotterer

Two different constructions generating the low-energy expansion of genus-one configuration-space integrals appearing in one-loop open-string amplitudes have been put forward in \rcites{Mafra:2019xms, *Mafra:2019ddf, Broedel:2019gba}. We are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Johannes Broedel , André Kaderli , Oliver Schlotterer

The low-energy expansion of genus-one string amplitudes produces infinite families of non-holomorphic modular forms after each step of integrating over a point on the torus worldsheet which are known as elliptic modular graph forms (eMGFs).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Oliver Schlotterer , Yoann Sohnle , Yi-Xiao Tao

In recent work we have developed a new unfolding method for computing one-loop modular integrals in string theory involving the Narain partition function and, possibly, a weak almost holomorphic elliptic genus. Unlike the traditional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Carlo Angelantonj , Ioannis Florakis , Boris Pioline

In previous papers it has been shown that the coefficients of terms in the large-$N$ expansion of a certain integrated four-point correlator of superconformal primary operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Daniele Dorigoni , Michael B. Green , Congkao Wen

A diagrammatic expansion of coefficients in the low-momentum expansion of the genus-one four-particle amplitude in type II superstring theory is developed. This is applied to determine coefficients up to order s^6R^4 (where s is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Michael B. Green , Jorge G. Russo , Pierre Vanhove

The recursive calculation of Selberg integrals by Aomoto and Terasoma using the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation and the Drinfeld associator makes use of an auxiliary point and facilitates the recursive evaluation of string amplitudes at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Johannes Broedel , Andre Kaderli

We set up, purely in A-model terms, a novel formalism for the global solution of the open and closed topological A-model on toric Calabi-Yau threefolds. The starting point is to build on recent progress in the mathematical theory of open…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrea Brini

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 Emiel Claasen , Mehregan Doroudiani

We study generic one-loop (string) amplitudes where an integration over the fundamental region F of the modular group is needed. We show how the known lattice-reduction technique used to unfold F to a more suitable region S can be modified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Trapletti

Explicit expressions for one-loop five supergraviton scattering amplitudes in both type II superstring theories are determined by making use of the pure spinor formalism. The type IIB amplitude can be expressed in terms of a doubling of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael B. Green , Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

We investigate the perturbative integrability of different quantum field theories in 1+1 dimensions at one loop. Starting from massive bosonic Lagrangians with polynomial-like potentials and absence of inelastic processes at the tree level,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Davide Polvara

We bootstrap one-loop string corrections to the four-point function of half-BPS operators in a 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFT with flavour group $SO(8)$, dual to gluon scattering at genus one on AdS$_5\times$S$^3$. We identify an 8-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Hynek Paul , Michele Santagata

This paper explores the moduli-dependent coefficients of higher derivative interactions that appear in the low-energy expansion of the four-graviton amplitude of maximally supersymmetric string theory compactified on a d-torus. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Michael B. Green , Jorge G. Russo , Pierre Vanhove