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Elliptic integral evaluation of a Bessel moment by contour integration of a lattice Green function

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-06 v3

Abstract

A proof is found for the elliptic integral evaluation of the Bessel moment M:=0tI02(t)K02(t)K0(2t)dt=1/12K(sin(π/12))K(cos(π/12))=Γ6(13)64π222/3M:=\int_0^\infty t I_0^2(t)K_0^2(t)K_0(2t) {\rm d}t ={1/12} {\bf K}(\sin(\pi/12)){\bf K}(\cos(\pi/12)) =\frac{\Gamma^6(\frac13)}{64\pi^22^{2/3}} resulting from an angular average of a 2-loop 4-point massive Feynman diagram, with one internal mass doubled. This evaluation follows from contour integration of the Green function for a hexagonal lattice, thereby relating MM to a linear combination of two more tractable moments, one given by the Green function for a diamond lattice and both evaluated by using W.N. Bailey's reduction of an Appell double series to a product of elliptic integrals. Cubic and sesquiplicate modular transformations of an elliptic integral from the equal-mass Dalitz plot are proven and used extensively. Derivations are given of the sum rules 0(I0(at)K0(at)2πK0(4at)K0(t))K0(t)dt=0\int_0^\infty(I_0(a t)K_0(a t)-\frac{2}{\pi} K_0(4a t) K_0(t))K_0(t) {\rm d}t=0 with a>0a>0, proven by analytic continuation of an identity from Bailey's work, and 0tI0(at)(I03(at)K0(8t)14π2I0(t)K03(t))dt=0\int_0^\infty t I_0(a t)(I_0^3(a t)K_0(8t)- \frac{1}{4\pi^2} I_0(t)K_0^3(t)) {\rm d}t=0 with 2a02\ge a\ge0, proven by showing that a Feynman diagram in two spacetime dimensions generates the enumeration of staircase polygons in four dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.0801.4813,
  title  = {Elliptic integral evaluation of a Bessel moment by contour integration of a lattice Green function},
  author = {David Broadhurst},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4813},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

13 pages, now includes staircase polygons and complex separatrices