Rademacher expansion of modular integrals

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Authors
  • Sebastian Mizera
Publication date 10-2025
Journal SciPost Physics
Article number 103
Volume | Issue number 19 | 4
Number of pages 51
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
Abstract

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 cuspsτ→i∞, ¯τ→x∈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 SO(16) × SO(16) string.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.19.4.103
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