Journal of High Energy Physics (May 2023)

Massive theta lifts

  • Marcus Berg,
  • Daniel Persson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2023)062
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2023, no. 5
pp. 1 – 41

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Abstract We use Poincaré series for massive Maass-Jacobi forms to define a “massive theta lift”, and apply it to the examples of the constant function and the modular invariant j-function, with the Siegel-Narain theta function as integration kernel. These theta integrals are deformations of known one-loop string threshold corrections. Our massive theta lifts fall off exponentially, so some Rankin-Selberg integrals are finite without Zagier renormalization.

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