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Basis decompositions of genus-one string integrals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-05-28 v2

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.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:34:03.449Z