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In quantum electrodynamics, optical processes are theoretically described by double-sided Feynman diagrams. This formalism is powerful in the case of molecules but proves inappropriate to account for light-matter interactions within complex…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-10 T. Noblet , C. Humbert

The Feynman Path Integral is extended in order to capture all solutions of a quantum field theory. This is done via a choice of appropriate integration cycles, parametrized by M in SL(2,C), i.e., the space of allowed integration cycles is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 D. D. Ferrante , G. S. Guralnik , Z. Guralnik , C. Pehlevan

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

We summarize recent progress in applying the worldline formalism to the analytic calculation of one-loop N-point amplitudes. This string-inspired approach is well-adapted to avoiding some of the calculational inefficiencies of the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-18 James P. Edwards , C. Moctezuma Mata , Christian Schubert

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

In this paper, we describe a numerical approach to evaluate Feynman loop integrals. In this approach the key technique is a combination of a numerical integration method and a numerical extrapolation method. Since the computation is carried…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-21 F. Yuasa , T. Ishikawa , Y. Kurihara , J. Fujimoto , Y. Shimizu , N. Hamaguchi , E. de Doncker , K. Kato

We present a new method for the decomposition of multi-loop Euclidean Feynman integrals into quasi-finite Feynman integrals. These are defined in shifted dimensions with higher powers of the propagators, make explicit both infrared and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-21 Andreas von Manteuffel , Erik Panzer , Robert M. Schabinger

It was observed that hyperlogarithms provide a tool to carry out Feynman integrals. So far, this method has been applied successfully to finite single-scale processes. However, it can be employed in more general situations. We give examples…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-01 Erik Panzer

A new approach to compute Feynman Integrals is presented. It relies on an integral representation of a given Feynman Integral in terms of simpler ones. Using this approach, we present, for the first time, results for a certain family of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Christopher Wever

The Feynman path integral plays a crucial role in quantum mechanics, offering significant insights into the interaction between classical action and propagators, and linking quantum electrodynamics (QED) with Feynman diagrams. However, the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 W. Wen

The path integral approach to quantum mechanics provides a method of quantization of dynamical systems directly from the Lagrange formalism. In field theory the method presents some advantages over Hamiltonian quantization. The Lagrange…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Asorey , A. Ibort , G. Marmo

In vacuum, the world-line formalism is an efficient tool for calculating observables in the presence of arbitrary constant external fields. The natural frame of this formalism is the Euclidean space. At finite temperature the analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Haitham Zaraket

In the present review we provide an extensive analysis of the intertwinement between Feynman integrals and cohomology theories in the light of the recent developments. Feynman integrals enter in several perturbative methods for solving non…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-26 Sergio Luigi Cacciatori , Maria Conti , Simone Trevisan

The proper time path integral representation is derived explicitly for an arbitrary $n$-point amplitude in QCD. In the standard perturbation theory the formalism allows to sum up the leading subseries, e.g. yielding double-logarithm Sudakov…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Yu. A. Simonov , J. A. Tjon

We introduce a type of graph integrals which are holomorphic analogs of configuration space integrals. We prove their (ultraviolet) finiteness by considering a compactification of the moduli space of graphs with metrics, and study their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Minghao Wang

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

A new definition for the path integral is proposed in terms of Finsler geometry. The conventional Feynman's scheme for quantisation by Lagrangian formalism suffers problems due to the lack of geometrical structure of the configuration space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-13 Takayoshi Ootsuka , Erico Tanaka

The path integral formalism gives a very illustrative and intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics but due to its difficult sum over phases one usually prefers Schr\"odinger's approach. We will show that it is possible to calculate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Dullweber , E. R. Hilf , E. Mendel

The Feynman path integral has revolutionized modern approaches to quantum physics. Although the path integral formalism has proven very successful and spawned several approximation schemes, the direct evaluation of real-time path integrals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Job Feldbrugge , Joshua Y. L. Jones

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