Rademacher expansion of modular integrals
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| Publication date | 10-2025 |
| Journal | SciPost Physics |
| Article number | 103 |
| Volume | Issue number | 19 | 4 |
| Number of pages | 51 |
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| 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 |
| Other links | https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105021212896 |
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