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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Daniel Baumann , Austin Joyce , Hayden Lee , Kamran Salehi Vaziri

We compute three families of two-loop six-point massless Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization, namely the double-box, the pentagon-triangle, and the hegaxon-bubble family. This constitutes the first analytic computation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-01 Johannes M. Henn , Antonela Matijašić , Julian Miczajka , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang

Canonical Feynman integrals are of great interest in the study of scattering amplitudes at the multi-loop level. We propose to construct $d\log$-form integrals of the hypergeometric type, treat them as a representation of Feynman integrals,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Jiaqi Chen , Xuhang Jiang , Xiaofeng Xu , Li Lin Yang

We elaborate on the method of differential equations for evaluating Feynman integrals. We focus on systems of equations for master integrals having a linear dependence on the dimensional parameter. For these systems we identify the criteria…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Mario Argeri , Stefano Di Vita , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Edoardo Mirabella , Johannes Schlenk , Ulrich Schubert , Lorenzo Tancredi

Two-loop multi-leg form factors in off-shell kinematics require knowledge of planar and nonplanar double box Feynman diagrams with massless internal propagators. These are complicated functions of Mandelstam variables and external particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-29 A. V. Belitsky , V. A. Smirnov

Multi-loop Feynman integrals are key objects for the high-order correction computations in high energy phenomenology. These integrals with multiple scales, may have complicated symbol structures. We show that the dual conformal symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Song He , Zhenjie Li , Rourou Ma , Zihao Wu , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang

Symbol letters are crucial for analytically calculating Feynman integrals in terms of iterated integrals. We present a novel method to construct the symbol letters for a given integral family without prior knowledge of the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-13 Xuhang Jiang , Jiahao Liu , Xiaofeng Xu , Li Lin Yang

We use the method of differential equations to analytically evaluate all planar three-loop Feynman integrals relevant for form factor calculations involving massive particles. Our results for ninety master integrals at general $q^2$ are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Johannes M. Henn , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We study dynamical systems which admit action-angle variables at leading order which are subject to nearly resonant perturbations. If the frequencies characterizing the unperturbed system are not in resonance, the long-term dynamical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-28 Barnabás Deme , Bence Kocsis

We study differential forms on an algebraic compactification of a moduli space of metric graphs. Canonical examples of such forms are obtained by pulling back invariant differentials along a tropical Torelli map. The invariant differential…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Francis Brown

In the well-studied genus zero case, bases of $\mathrm{d}\log$ integrands with integer leading singularities define Feynman integrals that automatically satisfy differential equations in canonical form. Such integrand bases can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Ekta Chaubey , Vasily Sotnikov

We present generic expressions for the integrands of canonical bases under maximal cut in elliptic Feynman integral families with multiple kinematic scales. Such integrals frequently arise in phenomenologically relevant scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Jiaqi Chen , Li Lin Yang , Yiyang Zhang

We describe a strategy to solve differential equations for Feynman integrals by powers series expansions near singular points and to obtain high precision results for the corresponding master integrals. We consider Feynman integrals with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Roman N. Lee , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

A practical version of the polynomial canonical formalism is developed for normal mesoscopic systems consisting of N independent electrons. Drastic simplification of calculations is attained by means of proper ordering excited states of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. K. Kuzmenko , V. M. Mikhajlov

Feynman integrals are easily solved if their system of differential equations is in $\varepsilon$-form. In this letter we show by the explicit example of the kite integral family that an $\varepsilon$-form can even be achieved, if the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-11 Luise Adams , Stefan Weinzierl

Cosmological correlation functions are central observables in modern cosmology, as they encode properties of the early universe. In this paper, we derive novel canonical differential equations for wavefunction coefficients in power-law FRW…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Mattia Capuano , Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Alessandro Palazio

Three elementary canonical transformations are shown both to have quantum implementations as finite transformations and to generate, classically and infinitesimally, the full canonical algebra. A general canonical transformation can, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Arlen Anderson

Feynman's path integral is herein generalized to the nonextensive canonical density matrix based on Tsallis entropy. This generalization is done in two ways by using unnormalized and normalized constraints. Firstly, we consider the path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. K. Lenzi , L. C. Malacarne , R. S. Mendes

We evaluate the three-loop five-point pentagon-box-box massless integral family in the dimensional regularization scheme, via canonical differential equation. We use tools from computational algebraic geometry to enable the necessary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-15 Yuanche Liu , Antonela Matijašić , Julian Miczajka , Yingxuan Xu , Yongqun Xu , Yang Zhang

Negative dimensional integration is a step further dimensional regularization ideas. In this approach, based on the principle of analytic continuation, Feynman integrals are polynomial ones and for this reason very simple to handle,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Alfredo T. Suzuki , Alexandre G. M. Schmidt