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The study of Feynman integrals through the lens of intersection theory offers a unifying framework for their analysis, capturing both the linear and quadratic relations that arise among integrals. In doing so, it provides a powerful method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-01 Anthony Massidda

Given a curve defined over an algebraically closed field which is complete with respect to a nontrivial valuation, we study its tropical Jacobian. This is done by first tropicalizing the curve, and then computing the Jacobian of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-13 Barbara Bolognese , Madeline Brandt , Lynn Chua

We introduce a type of graph integrals which are holomorphic analogs of configuration space integrals. We prove their (ultraviolet) finiteness by considering a compactification of the moduli space of graphs with metrics, and study their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Minghao Wang

In this paper we reformulate in a simpler way the combinatoric core of constructive quantum field theory We define universal rational combinatoric weights for pairs made of a graph and one of its spanning trees. These weights are nothing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vincent Rivasseau , Zhituo Wang

This dissertation presents new results on three different themes all related to matroid polytopes. First we investigate properties of Ehrhart polynomials of matroid polytopes, independence matroid polytopes, and polymatroids. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-28 David C. Haws

The amplitude of subdivergence-free logarithmically divergent Feynman graphs in $\phi^4$-theory in 4 spacetime dimensions is given by a single number, the Feynman period. We numerically compute the periods of 1.3 million completed graphs,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-26 Paul-Hermann Balduf

Given a dissimilarity map $\delta$ on finite set $X$, the set of ultrametrics (equidistant tree metrics) which are $l^\infty$-nearest to $\delta$ is a tropical polytope. We give an internal description of this tropical polytope which we use…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Daniel Irving Bernstein

This expository text is an invitation to the relation between quantum field theory Feynman integrals and periods. We first describe the relation between the Feynman parametrization of loop amplitudes and world-line methods, by explaining…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-14 Pierre Vanhove

We introduce a class of polytopes that concisely capture the structure of UV and IR divergences of general Feynman integrals in Schwinger parameter space, treating them in a unified way as worldline segments shrinking and expanding at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Aaron Hillman , Sebastian Mizera

We prove an analogue of Kirchhoff's matrix tree theorem for computing the volume of the tropical Prym variety for double covers of metric graphs. We interpret the formula in terms of a semi-canonical decomposition of the tropical Prym…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Yoav Len , Dmitry Zakharov

This is a survey on tropical polytopes from the combinatorial point of view and with a focus on algorithms. Tropical convexity is interesting because it relates a number of combinatorial concepts including ordinary convexity, monomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-10-12 Michael Joswig

We show that a nontrivial graph isomorphism problem of two undirected graphs, and more generally, the permutation similarity of two given $n\times n$ matrices, is equivalent to equalities of volumes of the induced three convex bounded…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-10 Shmuel Friedland

Asymptotic properties of matrices are, in general, difficult to analyze with classical mathematical techniques. In very specific cases, there is a well-known connection between the asymptotic behavior of a matrix's leading eigenvector and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Balazs Kustar

We use techniques from Gromov-Witten theory to construct new invariants of matroids taking value in the Chow groups of spaces of rational curves in the permutohedral toric variety. When the matroid is realizable by a complex hyperplane…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Dhruv Ranganathan , Jeremy Usatine

Two programs for the computation of perturbative expansions of quantum field theory amplitudes are provided. feyngen can be used to generate Feynman graphs for Yang-Mills, QED and $\varphi^k$ theories. Using dedicated graph theoretic tools…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-29 Michael Borinsky

Determining the number of embeddings of Laman graph frameworks is an open problem which corresponds to understanding the solutions of the resulting systems of equations. In this paper we investigate the bounds which can be obtained from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-03-13 Reinhard Steffens , Thorsten Theobald

The integrand of any multi-loop integral is characterised after Feynman parametrisation by two polynomials. In this review we summarise the properties of these polynomials. Topics covered in this article include among others: Spanning trees…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Christian Bogner , Stefan Weinzierl

A tropical curve in $\mathbb R^{3}$ contributes to Gromov-Witten invariants in all genus. Nevertheless, we present a simple formula for how a given tropical curve contributes to Gromov-Witten invariants when we encode these invariants in a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Brett Parker

We investigate the asymptotic behavior of entropy polymatroids associated with algebraic matroids over finite fields. Given an algebraic matroid ${\sf M}:=(\mathcal{E},r)$ and the irreducible variety $V$ associated with ${\sf M}$, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Guillermo Matera

Tropical geometry gives a bound on the ranks of divisors on curves in terms of the combinatorics of the dual graph of a degeneration. We show that for a family of examples, curves realizing this bound might only exist over certain…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Dustin Cartwright