Spherical contours, IR divergences and the geometry of Feynman parameter integrands at one loop

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2020)236MaRDI QIDQ2215451zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

Publication date 11 December 2020

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05429

zbMATH Keywords

\(1/N\) expansionscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Abstract: Spherical contours introduced in cite{SphericalContours} translate the concept of "discontinuity across a branch cut" to Feynman parameter space. In this paper, we further explore spherical contours and connect them to the computation of leading IR divergences of 1 loop graphs directly in Feynman parameter space. These spherical contours can be used to develop a Feynman parameter space analog of "Leading Singularities" of loop integrands which allows us to develop a method of determining Feynman parameter integrands with no reference to the momentum space loop integrand. Finally, we explore some interesting features of Feynman parameter integrands in $mathcalN=4$ SYM.

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