Elliptic integral evaluation of a Bessel moment by contour integration of a lattice Green function
Abstract
A proof is found for the elliptic integral evaluation of the Bessel moment 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 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 with , proven by analytic continuation of an identity from Bailey's work, and with , 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