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Structural Relations between Nested Harmonic Sums

Mathematical Physics 2008-12-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Algebraic Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We describe the structural relations between nested harmonic sums emerging in the description of physical single scale quantities up to the 3--loop level in renormalizable gauge field theories. These are weight {\sf w=6} harmonic sums. We identify universal basic functions which allow to describe a large class of physical quantities and derive their complex analysis. For the 3--loop QCD Wilson coefficients 35 basic functions are required, whereas a subset of 15 describes the 3--loop anomalous dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.0807.0700,
  title  = {Structural Relations between Nested Harmonic Sums},
  author = {Johannes Bluemlein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0700},
  year   = {2008}
}

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6 pages, to appear in the Proceedings "Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory 2008", Sondershausen, Germany

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