Feynman diagrams as a weight system: four-loop test of a four-term relation.

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00246-9zbMATH Open1049.81568arXivhep-th/9612011MaRDI QIDQ1594801FDOQ1594801

Authors: David J. Broadhurst, Dirk Kreimer 

Publication date: 7 February 2001

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: At four loops there first occurs a test of the four-term relation derived by the second author in the course of investigating whether counterterms from subdivergence-free diagrams form a weight system. This test relates counterterms in a four-dimensional field theory with Yukawa and $ph{i}^4$ interactions, where no such relation was previously suspected. Using integration by parts, we reduce each counterterm to massless two-loop two-point integrals. The four-term relation is verified, with $<G_1-G_2+G_3-G_4>=0-3zet{a}_3+6zet{a}_3-3zet{a}_3=0$, demonstrating non-trivial cancellation of the trefoil knot and thus supporting the emerging connection between knots and counterterms, via transcendental numbers assigned by four-dimensional field theories to chord diagrams. Restrictions to scalar couplings and renormalizable interactions are found to be necessary for the existence of a pure four-term relation. Strong indications of richer structure are given at five loops.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612011

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman diagrams (81T18)

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