Rademacher expansion of modular integrals

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Main Authors: Baccianti, Marco Maria, Chandra, Jeevan, Eberhardt, Lorenz, Hartman, Thomas, Mizera, Sebastian
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author Baccianti, Marco Maria
Chandra, Jeevan
Eberhardt, Lorenz
Hartman, Thomas
Mizera, Sebastian
author_facet Baccianti, Marco Maria
Chandra, Jeevan
Eberhardt, Lorenz
Hartman, Thomas
Mizera, Sebastian
contents We develop a method to evaluate integrals of non-holomorphic modular functions over the fundamental domain of the torus with modular parameter $τ$ analytically. It proceeds in two steps: first the integral is transformed to a Lorentzian contour by the same strategy that leads to the Lorentzian inversion formula in CFT, and then we apply a two-dimensional version of the Rademacher expansion. This computes the integral in terms of an expansion sensitive to the singular behaviour of the integrand near all the Lorentzian cusps $τ\to i \infty$, $\barτ \to x \in \mathbb{Q}$. We apply this technique to a variety of examples such as the evaluation of string one-loop partition functions, where it leads to the first analytic formula for the cosmological constants of the bosonic string and the $\mathrm{SO}(16) \times \mathrm{SO}(16)$ string.
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spellingShingle Rademacher expansion of modular integrals
Baccianti, Marco Maria
Chandra, Jeevan
Eberhardt, Lorenz
Hartman, Thomas
Mizera, Sebastian
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
We develop a method to evaluate integrals of non-holomorphic modular functions over the fundamental domain of the torus with modular parameter $τ$ analytically. It proceeds in two steps: first the integral is transformed to a Lorentzian contour by the same strategy that leads to the Lorentzian inversion formula in CFT, and then we apply a two-dimensional version of the Rademacher expansion. This computes the integral in terms of an expansion sensitive to the singular behaviour of the integrand near all the Lorentzian cusps $τ\to i \infty$, $\barτ \to x \in \mathbb{Q}$. We apply this technique to a variety of examples such as the evaluation of string one-loop partition functions, where it leads to the first analytic formula for the cosmological constants of the bosonic string and the $\mathrm{SO}(16) \times \mathrm{SO}(16)$ string.
title Rademacher expansion of modular integrals
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13827