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A dilogarithmic 3-dimensional Ising tetrahedron

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-09-13 v3 Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

In 3 dimensions, the Ising model is in the same universality class as ϕ4\phi^4-theory, whose massive 3-loop tetrahedral diagram, CTetC^{Tet}, was of an unknown analytical nature. In contrast, all single-scale 4-dimensional tetrahedra were reduced, in hep-th/9803091, to special values of exponentially convergent polylogarithms. Combining dispersion relations with the integer-relation finder PSLQ, we find that CTet/25/2=Cl2(4α)Cl2(2α)C^{Tet}/2^{5/2} = Cl_2(4\alpha) - Cl_2(2\alpha), with Cl2(θ):=n>0sin(nθ)/n2Cl_2(\theta):=\sum_{n>0}\sin(n\theta)/n^2 and α:=arcsin13\alpha:=\arcsin\frac13. This empirical relation has been checked at 1,000-digit precision and readily yields 50,000 digits of CTetC^{Tet}, after transformation to an exponentially convergent sum, akin to those studied in math.CA/9803067. It appears that this 3-dimensional result entails a polylogarithmic ladder beginning with the classical formula for π/2\pi/\sqrt2, in the manner that 4-dimensional results build on that for π/3\pi/\sqrt3.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9805025,
  title  = {A dilogarithmic 3-dimensional Ising tetrahedron},
  author = {D. J. Broadhurst},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9805025},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

8 pages, LaTeX; Eq(25) simplified; Eqs(27,33) and refs[3,18] added

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