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Modular Features of Superstring Scattering Amplitudes: Generalised Eisenstein Series and Theta Lifts

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Pith's one-line read This paper unifies two modular-function families from superstring amplitudes as theta lifts of local Maass functions, and shows that all contributions from holomorphic cusp forms cancel in them.

desk verdict A strong, honest paper: the theta-lift mechanism and cusp-form cancellation are proved for the half-integer/S-dual family, but the modular-graph-function half rests on an explicitly labeled unproven Conjecture 1. read the letter →

arxiv 2501.03996 v2 pith:T54AX52J submitted 2025-01-07 hep-th math.NT

Daniele Dorigoni , Michael B. Green , Congkao Wen This is my paper · ORCID
classification hep-thmath.NT MSC 11F1111F6611F3711M3681T30
keywords generalisedEisensteinseriesmodulargraphfunctionsthetaliftslocalMaassformsS-dualityholomorphiccuspL-valuesintegratedcorrelators
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The pith

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The reading

Two families of modular functions that arise in superstring scattering—two-loop modular graph functions (MGFs) from genus-one amplitudes and the S-dual modular functions (SMFs) from type IIB/M-theory effective actions and integrated correlators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills—are shown to be different faces of one construction: $\theta$ lifts of local Maass functions. The paper proves that each lift $E^w_{i,j}(\tau)$ is a rational linear combination of generalised Eisenstein series together with one ordinary Eisenstein series, with explicit coefficients, and that the $L$-values of holomorphic cusp forms present in individual generalised Eisenstein series cancel in the sum. For the SMF family the cancellation is a theorem; for MGFs it is a conjecture backed by all known cases. If the claim holds, the physically relevant modular functions are exactly the cusp-form-free combinations, and the appearance of the same lattice sum structures in string and gauge-theory observables is explained.

What carries the argument

The central object is the $\theta$ lift $E^w_{i,j}(\tau)=\int_{(\mathbb{R}_+)^3}B^w_{i,j}(t)\Gamma'_{2,2}(\tau;t)\,d^3t$, where $\Gamma'_{2,2}$ is the four-dimensional lattice sum over triples of nonzero momenta $p_i\in\mathbb{Z}+\tau\mathbb{Z}$ with $p_1+p_2+p_3=0$, and $B^w_{i,j}(t)=V(t)^{w-3}A_{i,j}(\rho(t))$ is built from the local Maass functions $A_{i,j}$ obtained by Maass-raising the modular local polynomial $u^i v^j$ with $u=\rho^2(1-\rho)^2$ and $v=\rho^2-\rho+1$. The lift satisfies $(\Delta_\tau-s(s-1))E^w_{i,j}(\tau)$ equal to a bilinear in ordinary Eisenstein series, and inverting the Laplacian produces the rational combination of generalised Eisenstein series. The mechanism that kills cusp forms is the identity $K_{i,j}(\Delta)=\int_0^{i\infty}\Delta(\tau)u^i v^j\,d\tau=0$, which holds because $\Delta(\tau)u^i v^j\,d\tau$ is invariant under the order-three element of $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ that cycles $0,1,i\infty$.

What would settle it

Compute the cusp-form coefficient $\lambda_{\Delta}$ for an integer-index generalised Eisenstein series not covered by the paper's examples, for instance $s=8$ with $(s_1,s_2)=(4,6)$, using the Poincare-series method of [9], and compare it with the conjectural formula (1.7); any mismatch falsifies Conjecture 1 and with it the MGF cancellation. Independently, evaluate the small-$\tau_2$ expansion of the half-integer particular solution at $s=6$, $(s_1,s_2)=(\tfrac32,\tfrac32)$, to higher order and check whether the power structure asserted in (4.31) holds.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that the $\theta$ lift $E^w_{i,j}(\tau)=\int_{(\mathbb{R}_+)^3}B^w_{i,j}(t)\Gamma'_{2,2}(\tau;t)\,d^3t$ of the local Maass function $B^w_{i,j}$ is a rational linear combination of generalised Eisenstein series $E(s;\frac{w}{2}+r,\frac{w}{2}-r;\tau)$ plus a multiple of $E(w;\tau)$, and that the contributions from $L$-values of holomorphic cusp forms cancel in the combination. The cancellation is shown by proving that $K_{i,j}(\Delta)=\int_0^{i\infty}\Delta(\tau)u^i v^j\,d\tau=0$ for every Hecke-normalised cusp form $\Delta\in S_{2s}$, with $u=\rho^2(1-\rho)^2$ and $v=\rho^2-\rho+1$, using the cyclic symmetry of the cusps $0,1,i\infty$. Consequently both MGFs and SMFs admit a four-dimensional lattice-sum representation, and any rational combination of generalised Eisenstein series with no cusp-form contribution is, by a dimension count, a combination of these $\theta$ lifts.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is Conjecture 1 for integer indices together with the unproved small-$\tau_2$ expansion (4.31) used in the S-dual proof; if either fails, the corresponding half of the cancellation claim collapses.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The theta-lift functions $E^w_{i,j}(\tau)$ give a four-dimensional lattice-sum representation of exactly those rational combinations of generalised Eisenstein series that occur in two-loop modular graph functions and in S-dual modular functions.
  • Individual generalised Eisenstein series can carry non-zero cusp-form $L$-values; the cancellation happens only in the combinations selected by the theta lift, making the absence of cusp forms a defining property of the physical modular functions.
  • For the S-dual family the cancellation is a theorem, while for modular graph functions it is conditional on Conjecture 1; proving that conjecture would put both families on the same footing.
  • At fixed weight and eigenvalue, the number of cusp-form-free rational combinations of generalised Eisenstein series equals the number of theta lifts $E^w_{i,j}$ with $s=3i+j+1$, so the theta lifts exhaust the cusp-form-free subspace.
  • The same construction motivates the paper's conjecture that the finite-$N$ integrated correlator is an integral over the complete theta series with an $N$-dependent integrand, which would explain the joint appearance of integer and half-integer powers of $1/N$.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The paper leaves implicit that the same mechanism should organise the odd/cuspidal generalised Eisenstein series of section 5.1; finding the analogue of $K_{i,j}(\Delta)=0$ there would predict matching cancellations in odd modular graph functions.
  • A testable selection rule suggested by this work is that the modular functions appearing in physical amplitudes are precisely the cusp-form-free theta lifts; checking this against the weight-$(h,-h)$ S-dual forms of section 5.3 would extend the unification beyond $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$-invariant observables.
  • If Conjecture 1 is proved, the MGF branch should follow from the same convolution mechanism that already proves the SMF branch, suggesting that a single number-theoretic identity underlies both families.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper develops the theory of generalised Eisenstein series (GESs) arising in superstring amplitudes and supersymmetric Yang-Mills integrated correlators. The authors define a class of modular-invariant functions E^w_{i,j}(τ) as theta lifts of local Maass functions (Eqs. (2.32)–(2.34)), show that these satisfy inhomogeneous Laplace equations whose sources are bilinears in non-holomorphic Eisenstein series (Section 3), and express them as rational linear combinations of GESs plus an Eisenstein series (Eqs. (3.30), (3.52)). They analyse the Fourier modes of GESs, derive an analytic expression for the cusp-form coefficient in the half-integer-index SMF case (Eq. (4.40)) using a theorem of Fedosova–Klinger-Logan–Radchenko, conjecture the analogous formula for integer-index MGF cases (Conjecture 1, Eq. (1.7)), and prove that the theta-lift combinations cancel all holomorphic-cusp-form L-values via the identity K_{i,j}(Δ)=0 (Section 4.3). The paper thus claims a unifying four-dimensional lattice-sum description for both two-loop modular graph functions and S-dual modular functions in which cusp-form L-values are absent.

Significance. If the main claims hold, the paper provides a substantive unification: theta lifts of local Maass functions generate exactly the rational combinations of GESs that appear in string-theoretic and field-theoretic observables, with the otherwise-obstructive L-values of holomorphic cusp forms cancelling automatically. The explicit coefficient formula (3.53), the analytic proof of the SMF case (conditional on Eq. (4.31)), the concrete examples in Eqs. (4.46)–(4.51), the counting argument of Section 4.3, and the numerically checked identities for infinite families are valuable contributions. The paper is also commendably honest: it labels Conjecture 1 and Conjecture 2 as conjectures and explicitly states that Eq. (4.31) is not proved. However, the abstract and Section 1.2 present the MGF branch as part of the demonstrated result, which overstates what is currently established.

major comments (3)
  1. [§1.2, §4.2, §4.3] The MGF branch of the central claim rests on Conjecture 1 (Eqs. (1.6)–(1.7) and (4.20)), which is unproven for integer s1, s2. The paper verifies only particular cases from [9,10] (e.g., Eqs. (4.17), (4.22)). Since Eq. (4.53) and the subsequent conclusion K_{i,j}(Δ)=0 ⇒ cancellation of L-values for MGFs in Section 4.3 use the conjectural coefficient (4.20), the demonstrated cancellation for MGFs is conditional. The abstract's statement that 'we demonstrate that elements belonging to these two families ... can be expressed as rational linear combinations ... for which all L-values ... cancel' is therefore too strong for the MGF family.
  2. [§4.2, Eq. (4.31)] The proof for SMFs depends on the small-τ2 expansion (4.31), which is stated without proof and only supported by numerical checks. This expansion is fed into Theorem FKR to derive the L-value coefficient (4.40) and hence the cancellation in the SMF case. If (4.31) fails, the entire SMF branch of the central claim would need revision. The paper should either supply a proof of (4.31) or explicitly elevate it to an assumption in the statement of the main theorem, and the abstract should reflect this conditional status.
  3. [§4.3, Eq. (4.58)] In the proof that K_{i,j}(Δ)=0, the text states that the weight condition is 's = 3i+j' immediately before Eq. (4.58); this should be s = 3i+j+1 to be consistent with the definition s = 3i+j+1 used throughout. While this appears to be a typo rather than a mathematical error, it obscures a load-bearing step and should be corrected.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract and §1.2] The abstract and the summary of results should explicitly distinguish the proved SMF case from the conjectural MGF case, or the text should be revised so that the word 'demonstrate' applies only to the SMF branch.
  2. [§2.1] There is a typo 'directlly' in the sentence 'It follows directlly from (2.34)...'.
  3. [§1.2] In the sentence 'the coefficient ot τ 2s in the solution of the homogeneous equation', 'ot' should be 'of'.
  4. [§3.3] The sentence 'Although the general coefficients (3.53) are not quite expressed in a fully explicit form' is vague; it would help to state precisely which ingredients (e.g., the coefficients c(α,β,γ)) are not closed-form.
  5. [§4.3] The counting argument concluding that 'any rational linear combination of GESs ... for which the cusp form contribution cancels must be a linear combination of theta lifts' is a dimension count assuming the coefficient matrix has full rank; this is plausible but should be stated more carefully as a rank assumption, especially when dim S_{2s} > 1.

Circularity Check

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No definitional or fitted-input circularity: theta-lift decomposition and cusp-form cancellation are derived and proven; the MGF branch is conditional on a labelled conjecture backed by the authors' earlier work, a correctness caveat rather than a circular step.

full rationale

The central construction is self-contained: E^w_{i,j}(τ) is defined by the lattice-sum theta lift (2.32)-(2.34), with A_{i,j} built from local polynomials, and no parameter is fitted to the claimed L-value cancellation. The GES decomposition (3.30)/(3.52) follows from explicit boundary-term computations and from the alternative source calculation (3.42)-(3.53). For SMFs, the cuspidal coefficient λ'_Δ is derived from the independent FKR theorem [22], leading to (4.39)-(4.40). For MGFs, the analogous coefficient is Conjecture 1 (1.7)/(4.20), explicitly labelled unproven; its support is the authors' earlier works [9,10] and a check of particular cases. In both branches the cusp-form part of E^w_{i,j} is reduced to K_{i,j}(Δ) in (4.53), and K_{i,j}=0 is proven by a modular-transformation argument (4.58)-(4.60), not imposed by definition. The counting argument in section 4.3 is presented in the text rather than imported as a black box. The genuine limitations are the unproved small-τ2 expansion (4.31), used in the SMF proof, and the unproved Conjecture 1 for the MGF spectrum; both are admitted in the paper (end of section 1.2 and around (4.31)). These are correctness/rigour gaps, and the self-citation in the MGF branch is a conjecture-support issue, not a reduction of the central claim to its inputs by construction. Hence no significant circularity; score 2 reflects the minor self-citation/conjecture caveat.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No free parameters are fitted to data, and no new physical entities such as particles, forces, or dimensions are postulated. The functions E^w_{i,j}, generalised Eisenstein series, and local Maass functions are mathematical constructions inherited or generalized from the quoted literature. The gap analysis instead flags Conjecture 1 and the unproved expansion (4.31) as load-bearing assumptions.

assumptions (6)
  • ad hoc to paper Conjecture 1: for s1,s2 in N, s1,s2 at least 2 and s of the same parity as s1+s2, the GES takes the form (1.6) with lambda_Delta given by (1.7).
    Unproven for integer indices; used to conclude L-value cancellation for MGFs in section 4.3. The paper presents it as a conjecture reproducing particular cases from [9,10].
  • ad hoc to paper Small-tau2 asymptotic expansion (4.31) of the particular solution for half-integer GESs.
    Explicitly stated without proof, with the text saying 'we do not have a proof of this expression'; verified numerically for many parameters. It is needed to apply Theorem FKR and obtain lambda'_Delta in (4.40).
  • domain assumption Basis of modular local polynomials A_{i,j}(rho) and their properties from Zagier's unpublished notes [24] and the review in [25].
    Used in section 2.2 to define the theta-lift integrand; [24] is not publicly available, but the construction is summarized in [25].
  • standard math Existence and uniqueness of modular invariant GES solutions with moderate growth for the spectra (4.13) and (4.23).
    Invoked via reference [30] and the Lemma in section 4.2; essential to identify the solutions of the homogeneous equation.
  • standard math Theorem FKR of Fedosova, Klinger-Logan and Radchenko on convolution identities for divisor sums.
    External peer-reviewed theorem used to prove lambda'_Delta for half-integer GESs.
  • standard math Manin's periods theorem and Rankin's Petersson norm formula.
    Used to rewrite L-value ratios and compute Petersson norms; standard results in the theory of modular forms.

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abstract

In previous papers it has been shown that the coefficients of terms in the large-$N$ expansion of a certain integrated four-point correlator of superconformal primary operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are rational sums of real-analytic Eisenstein series and "generalised Eisenstein series''. The latter are novel modular functions first encountered in the context of graviton amplitudes in type IIB superstring theory. Similar modular functions, known as two-loop modular graph functions, are also encountered in the low-energy expansion of the integrand of genus-one closed superstring amplitudes. In this paper we further develop the mathematical structure of such generalised Eisenstein series emphasising, in particular, the occurrence of $L$-values of holomorphic cusp forms in their Fourier mode decomposition. We show that both the coefficients in the large-$N$ expansion of the integrated correlator and two-loop modular graph functions admit a unifying description in terms of four-dimensional lattice sums generated by theta lifts of local Maass functions, which generalise the structure of real-analytic Eisenstein series. Through the theta lift representation, we demonstrate that elements belonging to these two families of non-holomorphic modular functions can be expressed as rational linear combinations of generalised Eisenstein series for which all the $L$-values of holomorphic cusp forms precisely cancel.

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Figure 1. In the ρ-plane, the domain ti > 0 is mapped to the region shaded in grey, isomorphic to a fundamental domain of Γ0(2). Here the labels (ijk) in each sub-domain denote the ordering ti < tj < tk. which is precisely the fundamental domain of Γ0(2) illustrated by the grey domain in figure 1 (which is reproduced from [11]). We will now express (2.2) in these new variables. With a slight abuse of notation, we denote Γ2,2(… view at source ↗

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