A contour integral representation for the dual five-point function and a symmetry of the genus-4 surface in

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/10/017MaRDI QIDQ3376795zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew J. Hanson, Ji-Ping Sha

Publication date 24 March 2006

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0510064

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integration, integrals of Cauchy type, integral representations of analytic functions in the complex plane (30E20) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions and symmetry properties (58D19) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: The invention of the "dual resonance model" N-point functions BN motivated the development of current string theory. The simplest of these models, the four-point function B4, is the classical Euler Beta function. Many standard methods of complex analysis in a single variable have been applied to elucidate the properties of the Euler Beta function, leading, for example, to analytic continuation formulas such as the contour-integral representation obtained by Pochhammer in 1890. Here we explore the geometry underlying the dual five-point function B5, the simplest generalization of the Euler Beta function. Analyzing the B5 integrand leads to a polyhedral structure for the five-crosscap surface, embedded in RP5, that has 12 pentagonal faces and a symmetry group of order 120 in PGL(6). We find a Pochhammer-like representation for B5 that is a contour integral along a surface of genus five. The symmetric embedding of the five-crosscap surface in RP5 is doubly covered by a symmetric embedding of the surface of genus four in R6 that has a polyhedral structure with 24 pentagonal faces and a symmetry group of order 240 in O(6). The methods appear generalizable to all N, and the resulting structures seem to be related to associahedra in arbitrary dimensions.

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