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Modular properties of massive scalar partition functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-06 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We compute the exact thermal partition functions of a massive scalar field on flat spacetime backgrounds of the form Rdq×Tq+1\mathbb R^{d-q}\times \mathbb T^{q+1} and show that they possess an SL(q+1,Z){\rm SL}(q+1,\mathbb Z) symmetry. Non-trivial relations between equivalent expressions for the result are obtained by doing the computation using functional, canonical and worldline methods. For q=1q=1, the results exhibit modular symmetry and may be expressed in terms of massive Maass-Jacobi forms. In the complex case with chemical potential for U(1){\rm U}(1) charge turned on, the usual discussion of relativistic Bose-Einstein condensation is modified by the presence of the small dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2407.02707,
  title  = {Modular properties of massive scalar partition functions},
  author = {Ankit Aggarwal and Glenn Barnich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.02707},
  year   = {2025}
}

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