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We review the method of the differential equations for the evaluation of multi-loop Feynman integrals. In particular, we focus on the series expansion approach for solving the system of differential equation and we discuss how to perform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 Tommaso Armadillo

Spherical contours introduced in \cite{SphericalContours} translate the concept of "discontinuity across a branch cut" to Feynman parameter space. In this paper, we further explore spherical contours and connect them to the computation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-15 Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

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

In this paper, we have constructed the Feynman path integral method for non-paraxial optics. This is done by using the mathematical analogy between a non-paraxial optical system and the generalized Schr\"odinger equation deformed by the…

The restricted Feynman path integrals (RFPIs) have been proposed to study continuous quantum measurements in physics. The RFPIs are heuristically determined in terms of the usual probability amplitude multiplied by weight for each path,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-20 Wataru Ichinose

Starting from the parametric representation of a Feynman diagram, we obtain it's well defined value in dimensional regularisation by changing the integrals over parameters into contour integrals. That way we eventually arrive at a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Knecht , H. Verschelde

Feynman's path integrals provide a hidden variable description of quantum mechanics (and quantum field theories). The expectation values defined through path integrals obey Bell's inequalities in Euclidean time, but not in Minkowski time.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Apoorva Patel

The proper time path integral representation is derived explicitly for an arbitrary $n$-point amplitude in QCD. In the standard perturbation theory the formalism allows to sum up the leading subseries, e.g. yielding double-logarithm Sudakov…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Yu. A. Simonov , J. A. Tjon

Numerical evaluations of Feynman integrals often proceed via a deformation of the integration contour into the complex plane. While valid contours are easy to construct, the numerical precision for a multi-loop integral can depend…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-22 Ramon Winterhalder , Vitaly Magerya , Emilio Villa , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Anja Butter , Gudrun Heinrich , Tilman Plehn

It has been known for many years that methods inspired by string theory, such as the worldline formalism, allow one to write down integral representations that combine large numbers of Feynman diagrams of different topologies. However, to…

A recursive algebraic method which allows to obtain the Feynman or Schwinger parametric representation of a generic L-loops and (E+1) external lines diagram, in a scalar $\phi ^{3}\oplus \phi ^{4}$ theory, is presented. The representation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ivan Gonzalez , Ivan Schmidt

Building on the idea of numerically integrating differential equations satisfied by Feynman integrals, we propose a novel strategy for handling branch cuts within a numerical framework. We develop an integrator capable of evaluating a basis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-18 Pau Petit Rosàs , William J. Torres Bobadilla

A method is presented which restricts the space of paths entering the path integral of quantum mechanics to subspaces of $C^\alpha$, by only allowing paths which possess at least $\alpha$ derivatives. The method introduces two external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Benjamin Koch , Ignacio Reyes

By adapting Feynman's sum over paths method to a quantum mechanical system whose phase space is a torus, a new proof of the Landsberg-Schaar identity for quadratic Gauss sums is given. In contrast to existing non-elementary proofs, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Vernon Armitage , Alice Rogers

In this paper we show how to improve and extend the Integration by Fractional Expansion technique (IBFE) by applying it to certain families of scalar massive Feynman diagrams. The strategy is based on combining this method together with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Ivan Gonzalez , Marcelo Loewe

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

For distinguishable particles it is well known that Brownian motion and a Feynman-Kac functional can be used to calculate the path integral (for imaginary times) for a general class of scalar potentials. In order to treat identical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 L. F. Lemmens , F. Brosens , J. T. Devreese

A recently developed analytical method for systematic improvement of the convergence of path integrals is used to derive a generalization of Euler's summation formula for path integrals. The first $p$ terms in this formula improve…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-08 Aleksandar Bogojevic , Antun Balaz , Aleksandar Belic

Feynman integrals with generic propagator powers in one and two spacetime dimensions are investigated from various perspectives. In particular, we argue that the class of track integrals at any loop order is fixed by the recently found…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Gwenaël Ferrando , Florian Loebbert , Amelie Pitters , Sven F. Stawinski

In nuclear and particle physics one is often faced with problems where perturbation theory is not applicable. An example of this is the description of bound states. Therefore, an exact solution of field theory to all orders is an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Cetin Savkli