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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

The method of differential equations has been proven to be a powerful tool for the computation of multi-loop Feynman integrals appearing in quantum field theory. It has been observed that in many instances a canonical basis can be chosen,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-23 Christoph Meyer

In this talk, we use several examples to elaborate on how a recently proposed algorithm can turn non-trivial Feynman integrals into an $\varepsilon $-factorised manner, regardless of their hidden geometric essence. In particular, some extra…

The standard procedure for computing scalar multi-loop Feynman integrals consists in reducing them to a basis of so-called master integrals, derive differential equations in the external invariants satisfied by the latter and, finally, try…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Amedeo Primo , Lorenzo Tancredi

We derive a second-order differential equation for the two-loop sunrise graph in two dimensions with arbitrary masses. The differential equation is obtained by viewing the Feynman integral as a period of a variation of a mixed Hodge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-01 Stefan Müller-Stach , Stefan Weinzierl , Raphael Zayadeh

In this paper we study the calculation of multiloop Feynman integrals that cannot be expressed in terms of multiple polylogarithms. We show in detail how certain types of two- and three-point functions at two loops, which appear in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Johannes Broedel , Claude Duhr , Falko Dulat , Brenda Penante , Lorenzo Tancredi

We use the method of differential equations to analytically evaluate all planar three-loop Feynman integrals relevant for form factor calculations involving massive particles. Our results for ninety master integrals at general $q^2$ are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Johannes M. Henn , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

In this talk, we discuss how to generalize ideas developed for Banana integrals to two two-loop non-planar triangle Feynman integrals involving elliptic curves, which have non-trivial sub-sectors and whose Picard-Fuchs operators share less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-15 Xuhang Jiang , Xing Wang , Li Lin Yang , Jingbang Zhao

We investigate $\varepsilon$-factorised differential equations, uniform transcendental weight and purity for Feynman integrals. We are in particular interested in Feynman integrals beyond the ones which evaluate to multiple polylogarithms.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-12 Hjalte Frellesvig , Stefan Weinzierl

In this talk we discuss Feynman integrals which are related to elliptic curves. We show with the help of an explicit example that in the set of master integrals more than one elliptic curve may occur. The technique of maximal cuts is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-11 Luise Adams , Ekta Chaubey , Stefan Weinzierl

We calculate 3-loop master integrals for heavy quark correlators and the 3-loop QCD corrections to the $\rho$-parameter. They obey non-factorizing differential equations of second order with more than three singularities, which cannot be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , M. van Hoeij , E. Imamoglu , C. G. Raab , C. -S. Radu , C. Schneider

We introduce a class of iterated integrals that generalize multiple polylogarithms to elliptic curves. These elliptic multiple polylogarithms are closely related to similar functions defined in pure math- ematics and string theory. We then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-19 Johannes Broedel , Claude Duhr , Falko Dulat , Lorenzo Tancredi

In modern quantum field theory, one of the most important tasks is the calculation of loop integrals. Loop integrals appear when evaluating the Feynman diagrams with one or more loops by integrating over the internal momenta. Even though…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Maxim Bezuglov

Scattering amplitudes at loop level can be expressed in terms of Feynman integrals. The latter satisfy partial differential equations in the kinematical variables. We argue that a good choice of basis for (multi-)loop integrals can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-26 Johannes M. Henn

We present an algorithm for determining the minimal order differential equations associated to a given Feynman integral in dimensional or analytic regularisation. The algorithm is an extension of the Griffiths-Dwork pole reduction adapted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-21 Leonardo de la Cruz , Pierre Vanhove

We report on three improvements in the context of Feynman integral reduction and $\varepsilon$-factorised differential equations: Firstly, we show that with a specific choice of prefactors, we trivialise the $\varepsilon$-dependence of the…

Over the last year significant progress was made in the understanding of the computation of Feynman integrals using differential equations. These lectures give a review of these developments, while not assuming any prior knowledge of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Johannes M. Henn

It is shown that the study of the imaginary part and of the corresponding dispersion relations of Feynman graph amplitudes within the differential equations method can provide a powerful tool for the solution of the equations, especially in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-23 Ettore Remiddi , Lorenzo Tancredi

In this talk we discuss the interplay of two elliptic curves, which occur in different sub-sectors of Feynman integrals. We analyse a particular Feynman integral depending on two elliptic curves and derive an associated differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Hildegard Müller , Stefan Weinzierl

We describe a new method of calculation of generic multi-loop master integrals based on the numerical solution of systems of difference equations in one variable. We show algorithms for the construction of the systems using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 S. Laporta