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Transcendental numbers and the topology of three-loop bubbles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-12-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We present a proof that all transcendental numbers that are needed for the calculation of the master integrals for three-loop vacuum Feynman diagrams can be obtained by calculating diagrams with an even simpler topology, the topology of spectacles.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9904304,
  title  = {Transcendental numbers and the topology of three-loop bubbles},
  author = {S. Groote and J. G. Körner and A. A. Pivovarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9904304},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages in REVTeX, 1 PostScript figure included, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett