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Cohen-Macaulay Property of Feynman Integrals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-12-23 v3 Mathematical Physics Algebraic Geometry math.MP

Abstract

The connection between Feynman integrals and GKZ AA-hypergeometric systems has been a topic of recent interest with advances in mathematical techniques and computational tools opening new possibilities; in this paper we continue to explore this connection. To each such hypergeometric system there is an associated toric ideal, we prove that the latter has the Cohen-Macaulay property for two large families of Feynman integrals. This implies, for example, that both the number of independent solutions and dynamical singularities are independent of space-time dimension and generalized propagator powers. Furthermore, in particular, it means that the process of finding a series representation of these integrals is fully algorithmic.

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@article{arxiv.2108.01410,
  title  = {Cohen-Macaulay Property of Feynman Integrals},
  author = {Felix Tellander and Martin Helmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.01410},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Clarified some of the technical aspects of the paper and added an appendix by Uli Walther. Also fixed typos