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Numerical Evaluation of Two-Dimensional Harmonic Polylogarithms

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The two-dimensional harmonic polylogarithms \G(a(z);y)\G(\vec{a}(z);y), a generalization of the harmonic polylogarithms, themselves a generalization of Nielsen's polylogarithms, appear in analytic calculations of multi-loop radiative corrections in quantum field theory. We present an algorithm for the numerical evaluation of two-dimensional harmonic polylogarithms, with the two arguments y,zy,z varying in the triangle 0y10\le y \le 1, 0z1 0\le z \le 1,  0(y+z)1\ 0\le (y+z) \le 1. This algorithm is implemented into a {\tt FORTRAN} subroutine {\tt tdhpl} to compute two-dimensional harmonic polylogarithms up to weight 4.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0111255,
  title  = {Numerical Evaluation of Two-Dimensional Harmonic Polylogarithms},
  author = {T. Gehrmann and E. Remiddi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0111255},
  year   = {2009}
}

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22 pages, LaTeX