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Traintracks Through Calabi-Yaus: Amplitudes Beyond Elliptic Polylogarithms

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-08-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We describe a family of finite, four-dimensional, LL-loop Feynman integrals that involve weight-(L+1)(L+1) hyperlogarithms integrated over (L1)(L-1)-dimensional elliptically fibered varieties we conjecture to be Calabi-Yau. At three loops, we identify the relevant K3 explicitly; and we provide strong evidence that the four-loop integral involves a Calabi-Yau threefold. These integrals are necessary for the representation of amplitudes in many theories---from massless φ4\varphi^4 theory to integrable theories including maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the planar limit---a fact we demonstrate.

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@article{arxiv.1805.09326,
  title  = {Traintracks Through Calabi-Yaus: Amplitudes Beyond Elliptic Polylogarithms},
  author = {Jacob L. Bourjaily and Yang-Hui He and Andrew J. McLeod and Matt von Hippel and Matthias Wilhelm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.09326},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

4+2 pages, 4 figures; references added

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