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Periods and Hodge structures in perturbative quantum field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-07-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

There is a fruitful interplay between algebraic geometry on the one side and perturbative quantum field theory on the other side. I review the main relevant mathematical concepts of periods, Hodge structures and Picard-Fuchs equations and discuss the connection with Feynman integrals.

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@article{arxiv.1302.0670,
  title  = {Periods and Hodge structures in perturbative quantum field theory},
  author = {Stefan Weinzierl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.0670},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

11 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the workshop "Periods and Motives", Madrid, July 2012, v2: typos corrected, comments added

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