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We describe an algorithm to organize Feynman integrals in terms of their infrared properties. Our approach builds upon the theory of Landau singularities, which we use to classify all configurations of loop momenta that can give rise to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-29 Giulio Gambuti , David A. Kosower , Pavel P. Novichkov , Lorenzo Tancredi

We propose that the symbol alphabet for classes of planar, dual-conformal-invariant Feynman integrals can be obtained as truncated cluster algebras purely from their kinematics, which correspond to boundaries of (compactifications of)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Song He , Zhenjie Li , Qinglin Yang

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

The full 245-letter symbol alphabet for all planar massless two-loop six-point Feynman integrals was recently determined in arXiv:2412.19884 and arXiv:2501.01847. In a parallel mathematical development, it was shown in arXiv:2408.14956 that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-27 Andrzej Pokraka , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , He-Chen Weng

We introduce a novel approach for solving the problem of identifying regions in the framework of Method of Regions by considering singularities and the associated Landau equations given a multi-scale Feynman diagram. These equations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 B. Ananthanarayan , Abhishek Pal , S. Ramanan , Ratan Sarkar

The method of using Hopf algebras for calculating Feynman integrals developed by Abreu et al. is applied to the two-loop non-planar on-shell diagram with massless propagators and three external mass scales. We show that the existence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 B. Ananthanarayan , Abhijit B. Das , Daniel Wyler

We propose to use tensor diagrams and the Fomin-Pylyavskyy conjectures to explore the connection between symbol alphabets of $n$-particle amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills theory and certain polytopes associated to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Lecheng Ren , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Momentum twistors for scattering amplitudes in particle physics are lines in three-space. We develop Landau analysis for Feynman integrals in this setting. The resulting discriminants and resultants are identified with Hurwitz and Chow…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Benjamin Hollering , Elia Mazzucchelli , Matteo Parisi , Bernd Sturmfels

This thesis focuses on the fields of scattering amplitudes and Feynman integrals, with an emphasis on the geometries and special functions that they involve, and is devoted to two distinct research directions. In the first half of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-16 Roger Morales

We identify cluster algebras for planar kinematics of conformal Feynman integrals in four dimensions, as sub-algebras of that for top-dimensional $G(4,n)$ corresponding to $n$-point massless kinematics. We provide evidence that they encode…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Song He , Zhenjie Li , Qinglin Yang

We consider the complete set of planar two-loop five-point Feynman integrals with two off-shell external legs. These integrals are relevant, for instance, for the calculation of the second-order QCD corrections to the production of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-07 Samuel Abreu , Dmitry Chicherin , Vasily Sotnikov , Simone Zoia

We reformulate the analysis of singularities of Feynman integrals in a way that can be practically applied to perturbative computations in the Standard Model in dimensional regularization. After highlighting issues in the textbook treatment…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-06 Claudia Fevola , Sebastian Mizera , Simon Telen

We comment on the status of "Steinmann-like" constraints, i.e. all-loop constraints on consecutive entries of the symbol of scattering amplitudes and Feynman integrals in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills, which have been crucial for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Song He , Zhenjie Li , Qinglin Yang

We address the appearance of algebraic singularities in the symbol alphabet of scattering amplitudes in the context of planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. We argue that connections between cluster algebras and tropical geometry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-19 James Drummond , Jack Foster , Ömer Gürdoğan , Chrysostomos Kalousios

We show how studying leading singularities of Feynman diagrams, when all momenta are complex, gives a simple way of writing multi-loop and multi-particle scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. The simplicity of the method is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-14 Freddy Cachazo

We present the computation of a full set of planar five-point two-loop master integrals with one external mass. These integrals are an important ingredient for two-loop scattering amplitudes for two-jet-associated W-boson production at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 S. Abreu , H. Ita , F. Moriello , B. Page , W. Tschernow , M. Zeng

We demonstrate that the complete and non-redundant set of Landau singularities of Feynman integrals may be explicitly obtained from the Whitney stratification of an algebraic map. As a proof of concept, we leverage recent theoretical and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-23 Martin Helmer , Georgios Papathanasiou , Felix Tellander

In this review, we discuss recent developments concerning efficient calculations of multi-loop multi-leg scattering amplitudes. Inspired by the remarkable properties of the Loop-Tree Duality (LTD), we explain how to reconstruct an integrand…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-30 German F. R. Sborlini

In this paper we discuss the geometric integrand expansion of the five-point Wilson loop with one Lagrangian insertion in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We construct the integrand corresponding to an all-loop class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-16 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Jaroslav Trnka , Shun-Qing Zhang

In this sequel to arXiv:1711.11507 we classify the boundaries of amplituhedra relevant for determining the branch points of general two-loop amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. We explain the connection to on-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-17 Igor Prlina , Marcus Spradlin , James Stankowicz , Stefan Stanojevic