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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

The role of differential equations in the process of calculating Feynman integrals is reviewed. An example of a diagram is given for which the method of differential equations was introduced, the properties of the inverse-mass-expansion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-23 A. V. Kotikov

Computing correlation functions in curved spacetime is central to both theoretical and experimental efforts, from precision cosmology to quantum simulations of strongly coupled systems. In anti-de Sitter (AdS) and de Sitter (dS) space, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-22 Aidan Herderschee

Significant progress has been made in our understanding of the analytic structure of FRW wavefunction coefficients, facilitated by the development of efficient algorithms to derive the differential equations they satisfy. Moreover, recent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-08 Shounak De , Andrzej Pokraka

In this work, building up on [1] we present momentum space Ward identities related to broken higher spin symmetry as an alternate approach to computing correlators of spinning operators in interacting theories such as the quasi-fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Sachin Jain , Renjan Rajan John , Vinay Malvimat

Cosmological correlators are very important objects in cosmology as they offer us a huge amount of information of the early universe. They reside on the future boundary of a de Sitter space and can be calculated by two methods. First method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-13 Nirmalya Brahma

We describe how a dlog representation of Feynman integrals leads to simple differential equations. We derive these differential equations directly in loop momentum or embedding space making use of a localization trick and generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez

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

Cosmological correlators encode statistical properties of the initial conditions of our universe. Mathematically, they can often be written as Mellin integrals of a certain rational function associated to graphs, namely the flat space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Claudia Fevola , Guilherme L. Pimentel , Anna-Laura Sattelberger , Tom Westerdijk

Cosmological correlators, the natural observables of the primordial universe, have been extensively studied in the past two decades using the in-in formalism pioneered by Schwinger and Keldysh for the study of dissipative open systems.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-28 Yaniv Donath , Enrico Pajer

We combine spectral- and split representations to factorize multi-loop momentum space diagrams, in the Schwinger-Keldysh formulation for cosmological correlators, with massive scalars in the loop. This allows us to extend the resummation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 Jonathan Gräfe , Ivo Sachs

We perform a comprehensive study of a certain class of discrete symmetries of families of Feynman integrals, defined as affine changes of variables that map different sectors of the family into each other. We show that these transformations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Claude Duhr , Sara Maggio , Cathrin Semper , Sven F. Stawinski

The differential equations satisfied by the wavefunction coefficients of conformally coupled scalars in a power-law cosmology can be recast into an iterative differential system of basis functions. These functions can be encoded within…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Ji-Yuan Ke , Ping He

We extend the investigation of the structure of the late-time wavefunction of the universe to a class of toy models of scalars with time-dependent masses and polynomial couplings, which contains general massive scalars in FRW cosmologies.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-06 Paolo Benincasa

We consider conformal four-point Feynman integrals to investigate how much of their mathematical structure in two spacetime dimensions carries over to higher dimensions. In particular, we discuss recursions in the loop order and spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-18 Florian Loebbert , Sven F. Stawinski

The answers for Feynman diagrams satisfy various kinds of differential equations -- which is not a surprise, because they are defined as Gaussian correlators, possessing a vast variety of Ward identities and superintegrability properties.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Victor Mishnyakov , Alexei Morozov , Pavel Suprun

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 revisit the computation of four-point wavefunction coefficients and correlators for external conformally coupled scalars exchanging a particle of generic mass and spin. Much of the phenomenology of cosmological collider physics in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Mattia Arundine , Guilherme L. Pimentel

We show that tree-level and one-loop Mellin space correlators in anti-de Sitter space obey certain difference equations, which are the direct analog to the differential equations for Feynman loop integrals in the flat space.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-07 Mark Alaverdian , Aidan Herderschee , Radu Roiban , Fei Teng

Massless spinning correlators in cosmology are extremely complicated. In contrast, the scattering amplitudes of massless particles with spin are very simple. We propose that the reason for the unreasonable complexity of these correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-17 Daniel Baumann , Grégoire Mathys , Guilherme L. Pimentel , Facundo Rost