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A big class of Feynman integrals, in particular, the coefficients of their Laurent series expansion w.r.t.\ the dimension parameter $\ep$ can be transformed to multi-sums over hypergeometric terms and harmonic sums. In this article, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 J. Blümlein , A. Hasselhuhn , C. Schneider

Intersection numbers are rational scalar products among functions that admit suitable integral representations, such as Feynman integrals. Using these scalar products, the decomposition of Feynman integrals into a basis of linearly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-16 Gaia Fontana , Tiziano Peraro

We revisit the idea of numerically integrating the differential form of Feynman integrals. With a novel approach for the treatment of branch cuts, we develop an integrator capable of evaluating a basis of master integrals in double and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Pau Petit Rosàs

We present a new method for numerically computing generic multi-loop Feynman integrals. The method relies on an iterative application of Feynman's trick for combining two propagators. Each application of Feynman's trick introduces a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 Martijn Hidding , Johann Usovitsch

An algorithm for the systematic analytical approximation of multi-scale Feynman integrals is presented. The algorithm produces algebraic expressions as functions of the kinematical parameters and mass scales appearing in the Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Sophia Borowka , Thomas Gehrmann , Daniel Hulme

We present a new method for the decomposition of multi-loop Euclidean Feynman integrals into quasi-finite Feynman integrals. These are defined in shifted dimensions with higher powers of the propagators, make explicit both infrared and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-21 Andreas von Manteuffel , Erik Panzer , Robert M. Schabinger

Feynman integrals are solutions to linear partial differential equations with polynomial coefficients. Using a triangle integral with general exponents as a case in point, we compare $D$-module methods to dedicated methods developed for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Johannes Henn , Elizabeth Pratt , Anna-Laura Sattelberger , Simone Zoia

Systems of integration-by-parts identities play an important role in simplifying the higher-loop Feynman integrals that arise in quantum field theory. Solving these systems is equivalent to reducing integrals containing numerator products…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-18 David A. Kosower

One of the most severe bottlenecks to reach high-precision predictions in QFT is the calculation of multiloop multileg Feynman integrals. Several new strategies have been proposed in the last years, allowing impressive results with deep…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 German F. R. Sborlini

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

Differential equations are one of the main approaches to evaluate multi-loop Feynman integrals. The construction of a canonical or $\varepsilon$-factorised basis for multi-loop integrals remains a key bottleneck for this approach,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Claude Duhr , Sara Maggio , Franziska Porkert , Cathrin Semper , Yoann Sohnle , Sven F. Stawinski

It was observed that hyperlogarithms provide a tool to carry out Feynman integrals. So far, this method has been applied successfully to finite single-scale processes. However, it can be employed in more general situations. We give examples…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-01 Erik Panzer

Scattering amplitudes at loop level can be expressed in terms of Feynman integrals. The latter satisfy partial differential equations in the kinematical variables. We argue that a good choice of basis for (multi-)loop integrals can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-26 Johannes M. Henn

We report on the calculation of multi-loop Feynman integrals for single-scale problems by means of difference equations in Mellin space. The solution to these difference equations in terms of harmonic sums can be constructed algorithmically…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 S. Moch , C. Schneider

The evaluation of multi-loop Feynman integrals is one of the main challenges in the computation of precise theoretical predictions for the cross sections measured at the LHC. In recent years, the method of differential equations has proven…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-08 Christoph Meyer

We generalise a method recently introduced in the literature, that derives canonical differential equations, to multi-scale Feynman integrals with an underlying Calabi-Yau geometry. We start by recomputing a canonical form for the sunrise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 Sara Maggio , Yoann Sohnle

An automated treatment of iterated integrals based on letters induced by real-valued quadratic forms and Kummer--Poincar\'e letters is presented. These quantities emerge in analytic single and multi--scale Feynman diagram calculations. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-02 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , C. Schneider

We discuss a progress in calculations of Feynman integrals based on the Gegenbauer Polynomial Technique and the Differential Equation Method. We demonstrate the results for a class of two-point two-loop diagrams and the evaluation of most…

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

The operator approach to analytical evaluation of multi-loop Feynman diagrams is proposed. We show that the known analytical methods of evaluation of massless Feynman integrals, such as the integration by parts method and the method of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. P. Isaev

We show how a large class of Feynman integrals can be efficiently reduced to master integrals by suitable covariant differentiation on the vector space dual to the one spanned by the master integrals. The connections needed in the covariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Gero von Gersdorff , Vinicius Lessa