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Integration-by-parts reductions from unitarity cuts and algebraic geometry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-07-08 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show that the integration-by-parts reductions of various two-loop integral topologies can be efficiently obtained by applying unitarity cuts to a specific set of subgraphs and solving associated polynomial (syzygy) equations.

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@article{arxiv.1511.01071,
  title  = {Integration-by-parts reductions from unitarity cuts and algebraic geometry},
  author = {Kasper J. Larsen and Yang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.01071},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages, 1 figure; a Mathematica package implementing the algorithm is attached as an ancillary file; v3: minor changes