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It is by now well established that, by means of the integration by part identities, all the integrals occurring in the evaluation of a Feynman graph of given topology can be expressed in terms of a few independent master integrals. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Ettore Remiddi

In this review paper, we consider three kinds of systems of differential equations, which are relevant in physics, control theory and other applications in engineering and applied mathematics; namely: Hamilton equations, singular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Xavier Gràcia , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Narciso Román-Roy

This course on Feynman integrals starts from the basics, requiring only knowledge from special relativity and undergraduate mathematics. Topics from quantum field theory and advanced mathematics are introduced as they are needed. The course…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Stefan Weinzierl

It is shown that every Feynman integral can be interpreted as Green function of some linear differential operator with constant coefficients. This definition is equivalent to usual one but needs no regularization and application of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 F. A. Lunev

In these proceedings we discuss a representation for modular forms that is more suitable for their application to the calculation of Feynman integrals in the context of iterated integrals and the differential equation method. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Johannes Broedel , Claude Duhr , Falko Dulat , Brenda Penante , Lorenzo Tancredi

Functional integrals are central to modern theories ranging from quantum mechanics and statistical thermodynamics to biology, chemistry, and finance. In this work we present a new method for calculating functional integrals based on a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Amos A. Hari , Sefi Givli

Integration-by-parts (IBP) identities and differential equations are the primary modern tools for the evaluation of high-order Feynman integrals. They are commonly derived and implemented in the momentum-space representation. We provide a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 Daniele Artico , Lorenzo Magnea

The hypergeometric function method naturally provides the analytic expressions of scalar integrals from concerned Feynman diagrams in some connected regions of independent kinematic variables, also presents the systems of homogeneous linear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-15 Tai-Fu Feng , Chao-Hsi Chang , Jian-Bin Chen , Zhi-Hua Gu , Hai-Bin Zhang

In these lectures I will give an introduction to Feynman integrals. In the first part of the course I review the basics of the perturbative expansion in quantum field theories. In the second part of the course I will discuss more advanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 Stefan Weinzierl

Although Feynman integrals in general cannot be expressed as well-studied special functions, they can be calculated systematically and efficiently using the \texttt{AMFlow} method in combination with differential equations in the kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-02 Zhi-Feng Liu , Yan-Qing Ma , Chen-Yu Wang

Recently, the non-linear Changhee differential equations were introduced in [5] and these differential equations turned out to be very useful for studying special polynomials and mathematical physics. Some interesting identities and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Dmitry V. Dolgy , Dae san Kim , Taekyun Kim , Jong-Jin Seo

Problems occurring in physically important non-trivial examples of loop calculations are discussed. A procedure of deriving expansions of two-loop self-energy diagrams with different masses is constructed. The cases of small and large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Davydychev

In this talk we discuss a class of Feynman integrals, which can be expressed to all orders in the dimensional regularisation parameter as iterated integrals of modular forms. We review the mathematical prerequisites related to elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 Luise Adams , Stefan Weinzierl

We show some examples of calculations of massless and massive Feynman integrals.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-21 A. V. Kotikov

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

Using dispersive techniques, it is possible to avoid ultraviolet divergences in the calculation of Feynman diagrams, making subsequent regularization of divergent diagrams unnecessary. We give a simple introduction to the most important…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Andreas Aste , Dirk Trautmann

Some recent results on evaluating Feynman integrals are reviewed. The status of the method based on Mellin-Barnes representation as a powerful tool to evaluate individual Feynman integrals is characterized. A new method based on Groebner…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. A. Smirnov

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 introduce the tools of intersection theory to the study of Feynman integrals, which allows for a new way of projecting integrals onto a basis. In order to illustrate this technique, we consider the Baikov representation of maximal cuts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Sebastian Mizera

Almost all theories of physics have expressed physical laws by means of differential equations. One can ask: why differential equations? What is special about them? This article addresses these questions and is presented as an inquiry-based…

Physics Education · Physics 2014-06-05 Shabnam Siddiqui