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The unequal-mass three-loop banana integral

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-11-05 v2

Abstract

We compute the three-loop banana integral with four unequal masses in dimensional regularisation. This integral is associated to a family of K3 surfaces, thus representing an example for Feynman integrals with geometries beyond elliptic curves. We evaluate the integral by deriving an ε\varepsilon-factorised differential equation, for which we rely on the algorithm presented in a recent publication. Equipping the space of differential forms in Baikov representation by a set of filtrations inspired by Hodge theory, we first obtain a differential equation with entries as Laurent polynomials in ε\varepsilon. Via a sequence of basis rotations we then remove any non-ε\varepsilon-factorising terms. This procedure is algorithmic and at no point relies on prior knowledge of the underlying geometry.

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@article{arxiv.2507.23594,
  title  = {The unequal-mass three-loop banana integral},
  author = {Sebastian Pögel and Toni Teschke and Xing Wang and Stefan Weinzierl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.23594},
  year   = {2025}
}

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31 pages, version to be published

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