I have evaluated up to 1100 digits of precision the contribution of the 891 4-loop Feynman diagrams contributing to the electron g-2 in QED. The total mass-independent 4-loop contribution is ae=−1.912245764926445574152647167439830054060873390658725345…(πα)4. I have fit a semi-analytical expression to the numerical value. The expression contains harmonic polylogarithms of argument e3iπ, e32iπ, e2iπ, one-dimensional integrals of products of complete elliptic integrals and six finite parts of master integrals, evaluated up to 4800 digits.
@article{arxiv.1704.06996,
title = {High-precision calculation of the 4-loop contribution to the electron g-2 in QED},
author = {Stefano Laporta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.06996},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
14 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables v2: version published in PRL (specified "mass-independent contribution", figure 2 reformatted)