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Applications of intersection numbers in physics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-11-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this review I discuss intersection numbers of twisted cocycles and their relation to physics. After defining what these intersection number are, I will first discuss a method for computing them. This is followed by three examples where intersection numbers appear in physics. These examples are: tree-level scattering amplitudes within the the CHY-formalism, reduction of Feynman integrals to master integrals and correlation functions on the lattice.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2011.02865,
  title  = {Applications of intersection numbers in physics},
  author = {Stefan Weinzierl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02865},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

12 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the workshop "MathemAmplitudes 2019: Intersection Theory and Feynman Integrals"

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