English

Ladders and rainbows in Minimal Subtraction

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-06-12 v2

Abstract

In dimensional regularization with D=D02ϵD=D_0-2\epsilon, the minimal subtraction (MS) scheme is characterized by counterterms that only consist of singular terms in ϵ\epsilon. We develop a general method to compute the infinite sums of massless ladder or rainbow Feynman integrals in MS at D0D_0. Our method is based on relating the MS-solution to a kinematic solution at a coupling-dependent renormalization point. If the ϵ\epsilon-dependent Mellin transform of the kernel diagram of the insertions can be computed in closed form, we typically obtain a closed form expression for the all-order solution in MS. As examples, we consider Yukawa theory and ϕ4\phi^4 theory in D0=4D_0=4, and ϕ3\phi^3 theory in D0=6D_0=6.

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@article{arxiv.2503.02079,
  title  = {Ladders and rainbows in Minimal Subtraction},
  author = {Paul-Hermann Balduf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.02079},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

11 pages, 5 figures. Mathematica notebook available as ancillary file

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