Closed-form angular integration in the orthogonal characteristic function

Determine whether the remaining integral over the center angular variable \(\Phi\) in the orthogonal-symmetry characteristic function for time-reversal-invariance-breaking scattering-matrix elements can be evaluated in closed form.

Background

In the orthogonal-symmetry calculation, the authors reduce the saddle-point-manifold integral to a four-fold integral over angular and radial variables. After transforming the angular variables to a center variable Φ\Phi and a difference variable, the difference-variable integral can be expressed using modified Bessel functions.

The remaining Φ\Phi-integral is not obtained in closed form. Although a power-series expansion would technically permit termwise phase integrations, the resulting resummation produces complicated sums without a meaningful closed expression. A closed-form evaluation would simplify the exact characteristic function for arbitrary time-reversal-invariance-breaking strength.

References

Unfortunately, to the best of our knowledge the integration over $\Phi$ is not possible in a closed form.

— Influence of Time Reversal Invariance Breaking on the Distribution of Off-Diagonal Scattering Matrix Elements and Cross Sections  (2609.37724 - Gluth et al., 29 Sep 2026) in Section 4.4, subsection “Integration over the Saddle Point Manifold”