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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 2L2L-fold integral representation of any LL-loop diagram in this class, we provide evidence that their leading singularities always give rise to integrals over (L1)(L{-}1)-dimensional varieties for generic external momenta, which for certain graphs we can identify as Calabi-Yau (L1)(L{-}1)-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.

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@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}
}

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5+4 pages, 6 figures

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