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The Stratification of Rigidity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-11-30 v1

Abstract

We show that a master integrand basis exists for all planar, two-loop amplitudes in massless four-dimensional theories which is fully stratified by rigidity -- with each integrand being either pure and strictly polylogarithmic or (pure and) strictly elliptic-polylogarithmic, with each of the later involving a single elliptic curve. Such integrands can be said to have definite rigidity.

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@article{arxiv.2207.00596,
  title  = {The Stratification of Rigidity},
  author = {Jacob L. Bourjaily and Nikhil Kalyanapuram},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.00596},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

45 pages; 72 (tikz) figures; ancillary files include explicit details for examples discussed

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