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The maximal cut of the nonplanar crossed box diagram with all massive internal propagators was long ago shown to encode a hyperelliptic curve of genus 3 in momentum space. Surprisingly, in Baikov representation, the maximal cut of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-24 Robin Marzucca , Andrew J. McLeod , Ben Page , Sebastian Pögel , Stefan Weinzierl

We investigate a novel theoretical structure underlying the computation of integration-by-parts relations between Feynman integrals via syzygy-based methods. Building on insights from intersection theory, we analyze the large-$\epsilon$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Ben Page , Qian Song

The Maximum Cut (Max-Cut) problem could be naturally expressed either in a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) formulation, or as an Ising model. It has long been known that the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Chuixiong Wu , Jianan Wang , Fen Zuo

We present a novel set of Feynman rules and generalised unitarity cut-conditions for computing one-loop amplitudes via d-dimensional integrand reduction algorithm. Our algorithm is suited for analytic as well as numerical result, because…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-25 W. J. Torres Bobadilla , A. R. Fazio , P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella

Generalized unitarity cut of a Feynman diagram generates an algebraic system of polynomial equations. At high-loop levels, these equations may define a complex curve or a (hyper-)surface with complicated topology. We study the curve cases,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Rijun Huang , Yang Zhang

We construct the complete (planar and non-planar) integrand for the six-loop four-point amplitude in maximal $D\le10$ super-Yang-Mills. This construction employs new advances that combat the proliferation of diagram contributions and state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-13 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Alex Edison , Henrik Johansson

The characterization of quantum processes is a key tool in quantum information processing tasks for several reasons: on one hand, it allows to acknowledge errors in the implementations of quantum algorithms; on the other, it allows to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Ignacio Perito , Augusto Roncaglia , Ariel Bendersky

Phase space cuts are implemented by inserting Heaviside theta functions in the integrands of momentum-space Feynman integrals. By directly parametrizing theta functions and constructing integration-by-parts (IBP) identities in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-29 Wen Chen

Using the multivariate residue calculus of Leray, we give a precise definition of the notion of a cut Feynman integral in dimensional regularization, as a residue evaluated on the variety where some of the propagators are put on shell.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi

We present the integrand reduction via multivariate polynomial division as a natural technique to encode the unitarity conditions of Feynman amplitudes. We derive a recursive formula for the integrand reduction, valid for arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella , G. Ossola , T. Peraro

A new kind of cut diagram is introduced to sum Feynman diagrams with nonabelian vertices. Unlike the Cutkosky diagrams which compute the discontinuity of single Feynman diagrams, the nonabelian cut diagrams represent a resummation of both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. S. Lam

The differential-reduction algorithm, which allows one to express generalized hypergeometric functions with parameters of arbitrary values in terms of such functions with parameters whose values differ from the original ones by integers, is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-19 Vladimir V. Bytev , Mikhail Yu. Kalmykov , Bernd A. Kniehl

We present a detailed description of the recent idea for a direct decomposition of Feynman integrals onto a basis of master integrals by projections, as well as a direct derivation of the differential equations satisfied by the master…

We compute epsilon-expansions around 4 dimensions of a complete set of master integrals for momentum space five-loop massless propagator integrals in dimensional regularization, up to and including the first order with contributions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Alessandro Georgoudis , Vasco Gonçalves , Erik Panzer , Raul Pereira , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We discuss the algorithm of the cutting rules of calculating the imaginary part of physical amplitude and the optical theorem. We ameliorate the conventional cutting rules to make it suitable for actual calculation and give the right…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong Zhou

Following our previous study of the recursive structure of Baikov representations, we discuss its application in the integration-by-parts reduction of Feynman integrals. We combine the top-down reduction approach with the recursive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-25 Xuhang Jiang , Ming Lian , Li Lin Yang

We provide a leading singularity analysis protocol in Baikov representation, for the searching of Feynman integrals with uniform transcendental (UT) weight. This approach is powered by the recent developments in rationalizing square roots…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Christoph Dlapa , Xiaodi Li , Yang Zhang

We present a proof that differential equations for Feynman loop integrals can always be derived in Baikov representation without involving dimension-shift identities. We moreover show that in a large class of two- and three-loop diagrams it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-02 Jorrit Bosma , Kasper J. Larsen , Yang Zhang

We present an alternative reduction to master integrals for one-loop amplitudes using a unitarity cut method in arbitrary dimensions. We carry out the reduction in two steps. The first step is a pure four-dimensional cut-integration of tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

In this paper we describe algebraic and diagrammatic methods, related to the MHV generating function method, for evaluating and exposing the structure of supersymmetric sums over the states crossing generalized unitarity cuts of multi-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Ita , H. Johansson , R. Roiban