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 and show that they possess an symmetry. Non-trivial relations between equivalent expressions for the result are obtained by doing the computation using functional, canonical and worldline methods. For , the results exhibit modular symmetry and may be expressed in terms of massive Maass-Jacobi forms. In the complex case with chemical potential for 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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