Traintracks All the Way Down
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-06-22 v1
Abstract
We study the class of planar Feynman integrals that can be constructed by sequentially intersecting traintrack diagrams without forming a closed traintrack loop. After describing how to derive a -fold integral representation of any -loop diagram in this class, we provide evidence that their leading singularities always give rise to integrals over -dimensional varieties for generic external momenta, which for certain graphs we can identify as Calabi-Yau -folds. We then show that these diagrams possess an interesting nested structure, due to the large number of second-order differential operators that map them to (products of) lower-loop integrals of the same type.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2306.11780,
title = {Traintracks All the Way Down},
author = {Andrew J. McLeod and Matt von Hippel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11780},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
5+4 pages, 6 figures