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This talk reviews Feynman integrals, which are associated to elliptic curves. The talk will give an introduction into the mathematics behind them, covering the topics of elliptic curves, elliptic integrals, modular forms and the moduli…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-16 Stefan Weinzierl

The Feynman path integral of ordinary quantum mechanics is complexified and it is shown that possible integration cycles for this complexified integral are associated with branes in a two-dimensional A-model. This provides a fairly direct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-01 Edward Witten

The role of differential equations in the process of calculating Feynman integrals is reviewed. An example of a diagram is given for which the method of differential equations was introduced, the properties of the inverse-mass-expansion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-23 A. V. Kotikov

Both Bohmian mechanics, a version of quantum mechanics with trajectories, and Feynman's path integral formalism have something to do with particle paths in space and time. The question thus arises how the two ideas relate to each other. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Roderich Tumulka

Differential equations are a powerful tool to tackle Feynman integrals. In this talk we discuss recent progress, where the method of differential equations has been applied to Feynman integrals which are not expressible in terms of multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-14 Luise Adams , Christian Bogner , Ekta Chaubey , Armin Schweitzer , Stefan Weinzierl

The problem of a conducting checkerboard has recently been solved via an elliptic function whose argument is another elliptic function. The behavior of the fields and currents near a vertex of the checkerboard pattern can be discussed by…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirk T McDonald

Feynman's path integral formulation arose from his attempt to incorporate the Lagrangian framework into quantum mechanics, offering what he regarded as a more fundamental perspective than the Hamiltonian approach, particularly in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Bernat Frangi , Héctor López

In this talk we discuss Feynman integrals which are related to elliptic curves. We show with the help of an explicit example that in the set of master integrals more than one elliptic curve may occur. The technique of maximal cuts is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-11 Luise Adams , Ekta Chaubey , Stefan Weinzierl

We discuss a progress in calculation of Feynman integrals which has been done with help of the Differential Equation Method and demonstrate the results for a class of two-point two-loop diagrams.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Kotikov

Path integrals developed by Richard Feynman have been an important tool in Physics in studying quantum field theory. In mathematics, it has also been widely used in providing formal proofs in the study of Index theorem and asymptotic…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Zhehua Li

In this article we present an analytic solution of the famous problem of diffraction and interference of electrons through one and two slits (for simplicity, only the one-dimensional case is considered). In addition to exact formulas, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 Mathieu Beau

The two-dimensional Dirac equation has been widely used in graphene physics, the surface of topological insulators, and especially quantum scarring. Although a numerical approach to tackling an arbitrary confining problem was proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Jiale Sun , Xiaoshui Lin

We argue that the Path Integral formulation of Feynman can be reconciled via a Planck scale underpinning for spacetime, with fuzzy spacetime considerations.

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Sidharth

Feynman's path integrals in ordinary, p-adic and adelic quantum mechanics are considered. The corresponding probability amplitudes $ K(x^{"},t^{"};x',t')$ for two-dimensional systems with quadratic Lagrangians are evaluated analytically and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-01 Branko Dragovich

The $\varepsilon$-form of a system of differential equations for Feynman integrals has led to tremendeous progress in our abilities to compute Feynman integrals, as long as they fall into the class of multiple polylogarithms. It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-09 Stefan Weinzierl

Discretizations of the Feynman-Kac path integral representation of the quantum mechanical density matrix are investigated. Each infinite-dimensional path integral is approximated by a Riemann integral over a finite-dimensional function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bond , Brian B. Laird , Benedict J. Leimkuhler

A connection between one-loop $N$-point Feynman diagrams and certain geometrical quantities in non-Euclidean geometry is discussed. A geometrical way to calculate the corresponding Feynman integrals is considered. (This paper contains a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 A. I. Davydychev , R. Delbourgo

The article considers some concrete solutions to the Dirac equation coupled to a vector bundle with connection, arising in the study of Yang-Mills equations and vector bundles on Riemann surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Nigel Hitchin

The Feynman path integral plays a crucial role in quantum mechanics, offering significant insights into the interaction between classical action and propagators, and linking quantum electrodynamics (QED) with Feynman diagrams. However, the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 W. Wen

I discuss a progress in calculations of Feynman integrals based on the Gegenbauer Polynomial Technique and the Differential Equation Method.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Kotikov