I am recently studying bosonization. In "the yellow book" by Philippe Di Francesco, Pierre Mathieu, and David Sénéchal, they calculated the partition function of a compactified boson using the path integral method. For each winding configuration ϕ(z+1,zˉ+1)=ϕ(z,zˉ)+2πnR\phi(z+1,\bar z+1)=\phi(z,\bar z)+2\pi nR and ϕ(z+τ,zˉ+τˉ)=ϕ(z,zˉ)+2πwR\phi(z+\tau,\bar z+\bar\tau)=\phi(z,\bar z)+2\pi wR (where we identified the torus as T2C/Z+τZ\mathbb{T}^2\cong \mathbb{C}/\mathbb{Z}+\tau\mathbb{Z} ), the partition function is Zn,w=Zbosexp{πR2nτw22(τ)}\mathcal{Z}_{n,w}=\mathcal{Z}_{bos}\exp\{-\frac{\pi R^2|n\tau-w|^2}{2\Im(\tau)}\} where Zbos\mathcal{Z}_{bos} is the partition function with periodic boundary condition. The total partition function is then Z=n,wZbosexp{πR2nτw22(τ)}\mathcal{Z}=\sum_{n,w}\mathcal{Z}_{bos}\exp\{-\frac{\pi R^2|n\tau-w|^2}{2\Im(\tau)}\} After Poisson resummation, we get Z=1η(τ)2n,r12q(r/R+nR/2)2qˉ(r/RnR/2)2\mathcal{Z}=\frac{1}{|\eta(\tau)|^2}\sum_{n,r}\frac{1}{2}q^{(r/R+nR/2)^2}\bar q^{(r/R-nR/2)^2} Alternatively, we can use canonical quantization to get the same result. In the canonical quantization language, rr is the label of Π0\Pi_0 , the zero mode of Π\Pi . I'm having trouble understanding why Poisson resummation over temporal windings gives us the sum over possible Π0\Pi_0 eigenvalues. Mathematically it makes sense. But what does this Poisson resummation physically mean? Poisson resummation, if I understand correctly, is a Fourier transformation. I don't understand why after Fourier transformation, we get Π0\Pi_0 eigenvalue labels.