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Type II superstring amplitude at one-loop and transcendentality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-06-05 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

We calculate the four-graviton scattering amplitude in Type II superstring theory at one loop up to seventh order in the low-energy expansion through the recently developed iterated integral formalism of Modular Graph Functions (MGFs). The machinery of the novel method allows us to propose a general form of the amplitude, which suggests that the expansion is expressible in terms of single-valued multiple zeta values and logarithmic derivatives of the Riemann zeta function at positive and negative odd integers. Furthermore, we comment on the transcendental behavior of the amplitude.

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@article{arxiv.2412.04381,
  title  = {Type II superstring amplitude at one-loop and transcendentality},
  author = {Emiel Claasen and Mehregan Doroudiani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04381},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

6 pages; Submission includes ancillary data file; v3: Sections rearranged and minor changes - version appeared in PRL

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