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Differential Reduction Algorithms for the All-Order Epsilon Expansion of Hypergeometric Functions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-10-06 v5 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics Classical Analysis and ODEs math.MP

Abstract

Hypergeometric functions provide a useful representation of Feynman diagrams occuring in precision phenomenology. In dimension regularization, the epsilon-expansion of these functions about d=4 is required. We discuss the current status of differential reduction algorithms. As an illustration, we consider the construction of the all-order epsilon-expansion of the Appell hypergeometric function about integer values of the parameters and present an explicit evaluations of the first few terms.

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@article{arxiv.0808.2605,
  title  = {Differential Reduction Algorithms for the All-Order Epsilon Expansion of Hypergeometric Functions},
  author = {S. A. Yost and M. Yu. Kalmykov and B. F. L. Ward},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.2605},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Poster presentation by S.A. Yost at the 34th International Conference on High Energy Physics, Philadelphia, August 2008. 3 pages, no figures, revtex4, slac_one.rtx. Version 4 corrects the arguments of one equation (between eqs. 5 and 6). Version 5 updates the template for ICHEP08