Amplitude recursions with an extra marked point

Dec 20, 2019
68 pages
Published in:
  • Commun.Num.Theor.Phys. 16 (2022) 1, 75-158
  • Published: 2022
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Report number:
  • HU-EP-19/41,
  • HU-Mathematik-2019-10

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Abstract: (International Press)
The recursive calculation of Selberg integrals by Aomoto and Terasoma using the Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equation and the Drinfeld associator makes use of an auxiliary point and facilitates the recursive evaluation of string amplitudes at genus zero: open-string NN‑point amplitudes can be obtained from those at N1N-1 points.We establish a similar formalism at genus one, which allows the recursive calculation of genus-one Selberg integrals using an extra marked point in a differential equation of Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov–Bernard type. Hereby genus-one Selberg integrals are related to genus-zero Selberg integrals. Accordingly, NN‑point open-string amplitudes at one loop can be obtained from (N+2)(N+2)‑point open-string amplitudes at tree level. The construction is related to and in accordance with various recent results in intersection theory and string theory.
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  • v2: replaced with published version
  • Selberg integrals
  • string scattering
  • KZ equation
  • KZB equation
  • Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation
  • differential equations
  • tree approximation
  • string model
  • string: amplitude analysis
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