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All-order alpha'-expansion of one-loop open-string integrals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-03-18 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We present a new method to evaluate the α\alpha'-expansion of genus-one integrals over open-string punctures and unravel the structure of the elliptic multiple zeta values in its coefficients. This is done by obtaining a simple differential equation of Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard-type satisfied by generating functions of such integrals, and solving it via Picard iteration. The initial condition involves the generating functions at the cusp τi\tau\to i\infty and can be reduced to genus-zero integrals.

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@article{arxiv.1908.09848,
  title  = {All-order alpha'-expansion of one-loop open-string integrals},
  author = {Carlos R. Mafra and Oliver Schlotterer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09848},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures, v2: added explanations, removed the appendix, matches published version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T10:57:14.962Z