Basis decompositions of genus-one string integrals
Abstract
One-loop scattering amplitudes in string theories involve configuration-space integrals over genus-one surfaces with coefficients of Kronecker-Eisenstein series in the integrand. A conjectural genus-one basis of integrands under Fay identities and integration by parts was recently constructed out of chains of Kronecker-Eisenstein series. In this work, we decompose a variety of more general genus-one integrands into the conjectural chain basis. The explicit form of the expansion coefficients is worked out for infinite families of cases where the Kronecker-Eisenstein series form cycles. Our results can be used to simplify multiparticle amplitudes in supersymmetric, heterotic and bosonic string theories and to investigate loop-level echoes of the field-theory double-copy structures of string tree-level amplitudes. The multitude of basis reductions in this work strongly validate the recently proposed chain basis and stimulate mathematical follow-up studies of more general configuration-space integrals with additional marked points or at higher genus.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2309.15836,
title = {Basis decompositions of genus-one string integrals},
author = {Carlos Rodriguez and Oliver Schlotterer and Yong Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.15836},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
56+8 pages, 9 figures. The companion paper 2403.18078 provides a Mathematica implementation. v2: minimal cosmetic changes, matches the published version in JHEP