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We develop a geometric framework in Feynman-parameter space to determine constraints on the sequential discontinuities of Feynman integrals. Our method is based on tracking the deformation of the integration contour as external kinematics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Ruth Britto , Holmfridur S. Hannesdottir

In this paper, we elaborate on the connection between leading singularities and canonical bases of Feynman integrals beyond polylogarithms. We start by discussing a notion of leading singularities in dimensional regularization, which can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Felix Forner , Cesare Carlo Mella , Christoph Nega , Lorenzo Tancredi , Fabian J. Wagner

It is by now well established that, by means of the integration by part identities, all the integrals occurring in the evaluation of a Feynman graph of given topology can be expressed in terms of a few independent master integrals. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Ettore Remiddi

We introduce exponential complexes of sheaves on manifolds. They are resolutions of the (Tate twisted) constant sheaves of the rational numbers, generalising the short exact exponential sequence. There are canonical maps from the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Alexander B. Goncharov

We explore inequality constraints as a new tool for numerically evaluating Feynman integrals. A convergent Feynman integral is non-negative if the integrand is non-negative in either loop momentum space or Feynman parameter space. Applying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-05 Mao Zeng

We evaluate a four-loop conformal integral, i.e. an integral over four four-dimensional coordinates, by turning to its dimensionally regularized version and applying differential equations for the set of the corresponding 213 master…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Burkhard Eden , Vladimir A. Smirnov

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

Many interesting physical theories have analytic classical actions. We show how Feynman's path integral may be defined non-perturbatively, for such theories, without a Wick rotation to imaginary time. We start by introducing a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Job Feldbrugge , Neil Turok

It is well known that Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization often evaluate to functions of hypergeometric type. Inspired by a recent proposal for a coaction on one-loop Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization, we use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi , James Matthew

We uncover a combinatorial structure governing the differential equations satisfied by wavefunction coefficients of scalar fields with generic masses in de Sitter space. Using an integral representation of the massive mode functions, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Daniel Baumann , Austin Joyce , Hayden Lee , Kamran Salehi Vaziri

Feynman integrals play a central role in the modern scattering amplitudes research program. Advancing our methods for evaluating Feynman integrals will, therefore, strengthen our ability to compare theoretical predictions with data from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-03 Henrik J. Munch

In these proceedings we will review recent progress in applying ideas from the mathematical framework of twisted cohomology to the study of canonical differential equations for Feynman integrals. Firstly, we will show how the intersection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Claude Duhr , Sara Maggio , Franziska Porkert , Cathrin Semper , Yoann Sohnle , Sven F. Stawinski

We review equivariant localization techniques for the evaluation of Feynman path integrals. We develop systematic geometric methods for studying the semi-classical properties of phase space path integrals for dynamical systems, emphasizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard J. Szabo

A systematic algorithm for obtaining recurrence relations for dimensionally regularized Feynman integrals w.r.t. the space-time dimension $d$ is proposed. The relation between $d$ and $d-2$ dimensional integrals is given in terms of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 O. V. Tarasov

We consider parametric Feynman integrals and their dimensional regularization from the point of view of differential forms on hypersurface complements and the approach to mixed Hodge structures via oscillatory integrals. We consider…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 Matilde Marcolli

Intersection numbers are rational scalar products among functions that admit suitable integral representations, such as Feynman integrals. Using these scalar products, the decomposition of Feynman integrals into a basis of linearly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-16 Gaia Fontana , Tiziano Peraro

Feynman integrals obey linear relations governed by intersection numbers, which act as scalar products between vector spaces. We present a general algorithm for constructing multivariate intersection numbers relevant to Feynman integrals,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Hjalte Frellesvig , Federico Gasparotto , Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Luca Mattiazzi , Sebastian Mizera

We study differential forms on an algebraic compactification of a moduli space of metric graphs. Canonical examples of such forms are obtained by pulling back invariant differentials along a tropical Torelli map. The invariant differential…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Francis Brown

Recently a nice work about the understanding of one-loop integrals has been done in [1] using the tricks of the projective space language associated to their Feynman parametrization. We find this language is also very suitable to deal with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-12 Bo Feng , Jianyu Gong , Tingfei Li

We consider multi-loop integrals in dimensional regularisation and the corresponding Laurent series. We study the integral in the Euclidean region and where all ratios of invariants and masses have rational values. We prove that in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 Christian Bogner , Stefan Weinzierl