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We propose a method for computing numerically integrals defined via $i \epsilon$ deformations acting on single-pole singularities. We achieve this without an explicit analytic contour deformation. Our solution is then used to produce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-21 Roberto Pittau , Bryan Webber

We present a method for rewriting dimensionally regulated Feynman parameter integrals in the Minkowski regime as a sum of real, positive integrands multiplied by complex prefactors. This representation eliminates the need for contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-01 Stephen Jones , Anton Olsson , Thomas Stone

We describe our method for rewriting dimensionally regulated Feynman parameter integrals in the Minkowski regime as a sum of real, positive integrands multiplied by complex prefactors. This representation eliminates the need for a contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Stephen P. Jones , Anton Olsson , Thomas Stone

Reference [1] introduces a method for computing numerically four-dimensional multi-loop integrals without performing an explicit analytic contour deformation around threshold singularities. In this paper, we extend such a technique to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-26 Roberto Pittau

We present a method to construct a suitable contour deformation in loop momentum space for multi-loop integrals. This contour deformation can be used to perform the integration for multi-loop integrals numerically. The integration can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Sebastian Becker , Stefan Weinzierl

In this article, we explore the use of contour deformation for the numerical evaluation of Feynman integrals after sector decomposition. In existing codes, the contour of integration is determined heuristically for each phase-space point by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Stephen Jones , Daniel Maître , Anton Olsson

A fully numerical method to calculate loop integrals, a numerical contour-integration method, is proposed. Loop integrals can be interpreted as a contour integral in a complex plane for an integrand with multi-poles in the plane. Stable and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Kurihara , T. Kaneko

Contour integral methods for nonlinear eigenvalue problems seek to compute a subset of the spectrum in a bounded region of the complex plane. We briefly survey this class of algorithms, establishing a relationship to system realization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Michael C. Brennan , Mark Embree , Serkan Gugercin

We introduce a novel construction of a contour deformation within the framework of Loop-Tree Duality for the numerical computation of loop integrals featuring threshold singularities in momentum space. The functional form of our contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-24 Zeno Capatti , Valentin Hirschi , Dario Kermanschah , Andrea Pelloni , Ben Ruijl

Steepest descent methods combining complex contour deformation with numerical quadrature provide an efficient and accurate approach for the evaluation of highly oscillatory integrals. However, unless the phase function governing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-07 A. Gibbs , D. P. Hewett , D. Huybrechs

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

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

We present GW calculations of molecules, ordered and disordered solids and interfaces, which employ an efficient contour deformation technique for frequency integration, and do not require the explicit evaluation of virtual electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-14 Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

A formalism for the numerical integration of one- and two-loop integrals is presented. It is based on subtraction terms which remove the soft, collinear and some of the ultraviolet divergences from the integrand. The numerical integral is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-08 A. Freitas

We present an efficient algorithm that computes the Minkowski sum of two polygons, which may have holes. The new algorithm is based on the convolution approach. Its efficiency stems in part from a property for Minkowski sums of polygons…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Alon Baram , Efi Fogel , Michael Hemmer , Dan Halperin , Sebastian Morr

The computation of Feynman integrals is often the bottleneck of multi-loop calculations. We propose and implement a new method to efficiently evaluate such integrals in the physical region through the numerical integration of a suitable set…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Manoj K. Mandal , Xiaoran Zhao

Nowadays the sector decomposition technique, which can isolate divergences from parametric representations of integrals, becomes a quite useful tool for numerical evaluations of the Feynman loop integrals. It is used to verify the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Takahiro Ueda , Junpei Fujimoto

Motivated by a connection with the factorization of multivariate polynomials, we study integral convex polytopes and their integral decompositions in the sense of the Minkowski sum. We first show that deciding decomposability of integral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Gao , A. G. B. Lauder

We present an interesting study of Feynman integral reduction that does not employ integration-by-parts identities. Our approach proceeds by studying the equivalence relations of integral contours in the Feynman parameterization. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Ziwen Wang , Li Lin Yang

An improved method is presented for the numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals in dimensional regularization. The technique is based on Mellin-Barnes representations, which have been used earlier to develop algorithms for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Ayres Freitas , Yi-Cheng Huang
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