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Analytic continuation and numerical evaluation of the kite integral and the equal mass sunrise integral

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-03-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the analytic continuation of Feynman integrals from the kite family, expressed in terms of elliptic generalisations of (multiple) polylogarithms. Expressed in this way, the Feynman integrals are functions of two periods of an elliptic curve. We show that all what is required is just the analytic continuation of these two periods. We present an explicit formula for the two periods for all values of tRt \in {\mathbb R}. Furthermore, the nome qq of the elliptic curve satisfies over the complete range in tt the inequality q1|q|\le 1, where q=1|q|=1 is attained only at the singular points t{m2,9m2,}t\in\{m^2,9m^2,\infty\}. This ensures the convergence of the qq-series expansion of the ELi\mathrm{ELi}-functions and provides a fast and efficient evaluation of these Feynman integrals.

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@article{arxiv.1705.08952,
  title  = {Analytic continuation and numerical evaluation of the kite integral and the equal mass sunrise integral},
  author = {Christian Bogner and Armin Schweitzer and Stefan Weinzierl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.08952},
  year   = {2018}
}

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30 pages, version to be published