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We present a review of the symbol map, a mathematical tool that can be useful in simplifying expressions among multiple polylogarithms, and recall its main properties. A recipe is given for how to obtain the symbol of a multiple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Claude Duhr , Herbert Gangl , John R. Rhodes

Two-loop corrections to scattering amplitudes are crucial theoretical input for collider physics. Recent years have seen tremendous advances in computing Feynman integrals, scattering amplitudes, and cross sections for five-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Johannes Henn , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang

Consider an elliptic self-adjoint pseudodifferential operator $A$ acting on $m$-columns of half-densities on a closed manifold $M$, whose principal symbol is assumed to have simple eigenvalues. Relying on a basis of pseudodifferential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Matteo Capoferri

We introduce a class of iterated integrals, defined through a set of linearly independent integration kernels on elliptic curves. As a direct generalisation of multiple polylogarithms, we construct our set of integration kernels ensuring…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Johannes Broedel , Claude Duhr , Falko Dulat , Lorenzo Tancredi

We propose a geometrical approach to generate symbol letters of amplitudes/integrals in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory, known as {\it Schubert problems}. Beginning with one-loop integrals, we find that intersections of lines…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Qinglin Yang

This work deals with two types of Feynman integrals in perturbative quantum field theory: the 2-loop 2-point kite, with 5 arbitrary internal masses, and its completion by a sixth propagator, to give a 3-loop tetrahedral tadpole, with 6…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-16 David Broadhurst

We present the master integrals needed for the light fermionic two-loop corrections to top quark pair production in the gluon fusion channel. Via the method of differential equations we compute the results in terms of multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Andreas von Manteuffel , Cedric Studerus

Seven-point amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory have previously been constructed through four loops using the Steinmann cluster bootstrap, but only at the level of the symbol. We promote these symbols to actual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Lance J. Dixon , Yu-Ting Liu

We introduce a method for deriving constraints on the symbol of Feynman integrals from the form of their asymptotic expansions in the neighborhood of Landau loci. In particular, we show that the behavior of these integrals near singular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-03 Holmfridur S. Hannesdottir , Andrew J. McLeod , Matthew D. Schwartz , Cristian Vergu

The main steps of the process of obtaining the result [1] in terms of elliptic polylogarithms for a two-loop sunrise integral with two different internal masses with pseudothreshold kinematics for all orders of the dimensional regulator are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 A. V. Kotikov

Seven-particle scattering amplitudes in planar super-Yang-Mills theory are believed to belong to a special class of generalised polylogarithm functions called heptagon functions. These are functions with physical branch cuts whose symbols…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-11 James M. Drummond , Georgios Papathanasiou , Marcus Spradlin

The high-energy behaviour of scattering amplitudes involving massive particles has attracted interest in recent years. In these proceedings, we report on the analytic tool AsyInt for solving massive multi-loop Feynman integrals in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-14 Hantian Zhang

We present an evaluation of box diagram for the elastic $ep$ scattering with proton in the intermediate state. Using analytic properties of the proton form factors we express the amplitude via twofold integral, which involves the form…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Dmitry Borisyuk , Alexander Kobushkin

We propose an algorithm for the application of the Laplace method for the calculation of the simplest Feynman diagram with a single loop in the scalar {\phi}^3 theory. The calculation of the contribution of such a diagram to the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-31 I. V. Sharph , T. M. Zelentsova , N. O. Chudak , O. S. Potiienko , D. A. Ptashynskiy , K. K. Merkotan , T. V. Yushkevich , A. O. Milieva

We present an algorithm for the analytical evaluation of dimensionally regularized massless on-shell double box Feynman diagrams with arbitrary polynomials in numerators and general integer powers of propagators. Recurrence relations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. A. Smirnov , O. L. Veretin

In this paper we consider multi-loop integrals appearing in MHV scattering amplitudes of planar N=4 SYM. Through particular differential operators which reduce the loop order by one, we present explicit equations for the two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 L. Ferro

We present a symbol-level bootstrap construction of the planar, two-loop six-gluon scattering amplitude for the --++++ helicity configuration in QCD, focusing on the maximal weight pieces-the "most complicated terms" in the sense of Lipatov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Sérgio Carrôlo , Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang

We study the strongly singular volume integral equation that describes the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves by a penetrable obstacle. We consider the case of a cylindrical obstacle and fields invariant along the axis of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Martin Costabel , Eric Darrigrand , Hamdi Sakly

We review a method for the algebraic treatment of a family of functions which contains the multiple polylogarithms, with applications to the symbolic calculation of Feynman integrals.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-01 Christian Bogner , Francis Brown

We address the analytic computation of the two-loop scattering amplitudes for the production of two photons in parton-parton scattering, mediated by loops of heavy quarks. Due to the presence of integrals of elliptic type, both partonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Matteo Becchetti , Federico Coro , Christoph Nega , Lorenzo Tancredi , Fabian J. Wagner