Differential Equations for Feynman Graph Amplitudes

The evaluation of loop amplitudes via differential equations and harmonic polylogarithms is discussed at an introductory level. The method is based on evolution equations in the masses or in the external kinematical invariants and on a proper choice of the basis of the trascendental functions. The presentation is pedagogical and goes through specific one-loop and two-loop examples in order to illustrate the general elements and ideas.

We study the algebraic and analytic structure of Feynman integrals by proposing an operation that maps an integral into pairs of integrals obtained from a master integrand and a corresponding master contour. This operation is a coaction. It reduces to the known coaction on multiple polylogarithms, but applies more generally, e.g. to hypergeometric functions. The coaction also applies to generic one-loop Feynman integrals with any configuration of internal and external masses,...

We recently presented a new method for the evaluation of one-loop amplitude of arbitrary scattering processes, in which the reduction to scalar integrals is performed at the integrand level. In this talk, we review the main features of the method and briefly summarize the results of the first calculations performed using it.

The ideas behind the concept of algebraic ("integration-by-parts") algorithms for multiloop calculations are reviewed. For any topology and mass pattern, a finite iterative algebraic procedure is proved to exist which transforms the corresponding Feynman-parametrized integrands into a form that is optimal for numerical integration, with all the poles in D-4 explicitly extracted.

Deriving a comprehensive set of reduction rules for Feynman integrals has been a longstanding challenge. In this paper, we present a proposed solution to this problem utilizing generating functions of Feynman integrals. By establishing and solving differential equations of these generating functions, we are able to derive a system of reduction rules that effectively reduce any associated Feynman integrals to their bases. We illustrate this method through various examples and ...

The computation of Feynman integrals is often the bottleneck of multi-loop calculations. We propose and implement a new method to efficiently evaluate such integrals in the physical region through the numerical integration of a suitable set of differential equations, where the initial conditions are provided in the unphysical region via the sector decomposition method. We present numerical results for a set of two-loop integrals, where the non-planar ones complete the master ...

The general lines of the derivation and the main properties of the master equations for the master amplitudes associated to a given Feynman graph are recalled. Some results for the 2-loop self-mass graph with 4 propagators are then presented.

In this paper we show how to improve and extend the Integration by Fractional Expansion technique (IBFE) by applying it to certain families of scalar massive Feynman diagrams. The strategy is based on combining this method together with the Integration by Parts technique (IBP). In particular, we want to calculate certain Feynman diagrams which have a triangle loop as a subgraph. The main idea is to use IBP in this subgraph in order to simplify the topology of the original dia...

Differential equations are a powerful tool to tackle Feynman integrals. In this talk we discuss recent progress, where the method of differential equations has been applied to Feynman integrals which are not expressible in terms of multiple polylogarithms.

We elaborate on the recent idea of a direct decomposition of Feynman integrals onto a basis of master integrals on maximal cuts using intersection numbers. We begin by showing an application of the method to the derivation of contiguity relations for special functions, such as the Euler beta function, the Gauss ${}_2F_1$ hypergeometric function, and the Appell $F_1$ function. Then, we apply the new method to decompose Feynman integrals whose maximal cuts admit 1-form integral...