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An Introduction to Motivic Feynman Integrals

Mathematical Physics 2021-03-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Geometry math.MP

Abstract

This article gives a short step-by-step introduction to the representation of parametric Feynman integrals in scalar perturbative quantum field theory as periods of motives. The application of motivic Galois theory to the algebro-geometric and categorical structures underlying Feynman graphs is reviewed up to the current state of research. The example of primitive log-divergent Feynman graphs in scalar massless ϕ4\phi^4 quantum field theory is analysed in detail.

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@article{arxiv.2009.00426,
  title  = {An Introduction to Motivic Feynman Integrals},
  author = {Claudia Rella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00426},
  year   = {2021}
}
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