^-Expansion of open string disk integrals via Mellin transformations

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.12.005MaRDI QIDQ901948zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ellis Ye Yuan

Publication date 6 January 2016

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1066

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incomplete beta and gamma functions (error functions, probability integral, Fresnel integrals) (33B20) Feynman diagrams (81T18) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: Open string disk integrals are represented as contour integrals of a product of Beta functions by using Mellin transformations. This makes the mathematical problem of computing the alpha' expansion around the field theory limit basically identical to that of the epsilon expansion in Feymann loop integrals around the four dimensional limit. More explicitly, the formula in Mellin space obtained directly from the standard Koba-Nielsen like representation is valid in a region of values of alpha' that does not include alpha'=0. Analytic continuation is therefore needed since contours are pinched by poles as alpha' approaches 0. Deforming contours that get pinched by poles generates a set of (n-3)! multidimensional residues left behind which contain all the field theory information. We end by drawing some analogies between the field theory formulas obtained by this method and those derived recently from using the scattering equations.

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