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One-Loop BPS amplitudes as BPS-state sums

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-02-15 v4 Number Theory

Abstract

Recently, we introduced a new procedure for computing a class of one-loop BPS-saturated amplitudes in String Theory, which expresses them as a sum of one-loop contributions of all perturbative BPS states in a manifestly T-duality invariant fashion. In this paper, we extend this procedure to all BPS-saturated amplitudes of the form \int_F \Gamma_{d+k,d} {\Phi}, with {\Phi} being a weak (almost) holomorphic modular form of weight -k/2. We use the fact that any such {\Phi} can be expressed as a linear combination of certain absolutely convergent Poincar\'e series, against which the fundamental domain F can be unfolded. The resulting BPS-state sum neatly exhibits the singularities of the amplitude at points of gauge symmetry enhancement, in a chamber-independent fashion. We illustrate our method with concrete examples of interest in heterotic string compactifications.

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@article{arxiv.1203.0566,
  title  = {One-Loop BPS amplitudes as BPS-state sums},
  author = {Carlo Angelantonj and Ioannis Florakis and Boris Pioline},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.0566},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

42 pages; v4: a few misprints corrected

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