Modular graph forms from equivariant iterated Eisenstein integrals

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  • Daniele Dorigoni
  • Mehregan Doroudiani
  • Joshua Drewitt
  • Martijn Hidding
  • Axel Kleinschmidt
  • Nils Matthes
  • Oliver Schlotterer
  • Bram Verbeek

The low-energy expansion of closed-string scattering amplitudes at genus one introduces infinite families of non-holomorphic modular forms called modular graph forms. Their differential and number-theoretic properties motivated Brown’s alternative construction of non-holomorphic modular forms in the recent mathematics literature from so-called equivariant iterated Eisenstein integrals. In this work, we provide the first validations beyond depth one of Brown’s conjecture that equivariant iterated Eisenstein integrals contain modular graph forms. Apart from a variety of examples at depth two and three, we spell out the systematics of the dictionary and make certain elements of Brown’s construction fully explicit to all orders.

Original languageEnglish
Article number162
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2022
Issue number12
Number of pages44
ISSN1126-6708
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Publication statusPublished - 2022

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  • Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

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