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Transmutation operators and expansions for $1$-loop Feynman integrands

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-05 v2

Abstract

In this paper, the connections among 11-loop Feynman integrands of a large variety of theories with massless external states are further investigated. The work includes two parts. First, we construct a new class of differential operators which transmute the 11-loop gravitational Feynman integrands to 11-loop Yang-Mills Feynman integrands. The new operators are commutable with the integration of loop momentum, thus the corresponding transmutational relations hold at not only the integrands level, but also the 11-loop amplitudes level. Secondly, by using 11-loop level transmutational relations, together with some general requirements such as gauge and Lorentz invariance, we derive the expansions of the Feynman integrands of one theory to those of other theories. The unified web for expansions is established, including a wide range of theories which are gravitational theory, Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, Einstein-Maxwell theory, Born-Infeld theory, pure Yang-Mills theory, Yang-Mills-scalar theory, special Yang-Mills-scalar theory, Dirac-Born-Infeld theory, extended Dirac-Born-Infeld theory, special Galileon theory, non-linear sigma model. The systematic rules for evaluating coefficients in the expansions are provided, and the duality between transmutational relations and expansions is shown.

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@article{arxiv.2201.01552,
  title  = {Transmutation operators and expansions for $1$-loop Feynman integrands},
  author = {Kang Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.01552},
  year   = {2026}
}

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53 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables

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