A second-order differential equation for the two-loop sunrise graph with arbitrary masses

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DOI10.4310/CNTP.2012.V6.N1.A5zbMATH Open1275.81069arXiv1112.4360WikidataQ115205036 ScholiaQ115205036MaRDI QIDQ2392087FDOQ2392087


Authors: Stefan Müller-Stach, Stefan Weinzierl, Raphael Zayadeh Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 7 August 2013

Published in: Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive a second-order differential equation for the two-loop sunrise graph in two dimensions with arbitrary masses. The differential equation is obtained by viewing the Feynman integral as a period of a variation of a mixed Hodge structure, where the variation is with respect to the external momentum squared. The fibre is the complement of an elliptic curve. From the fact that the first cohomology group of this elliptic curve is two-dimensional we obtain a second-order differential equation. This is an improvement compared to the usual way of deriving differential equations: Integration-by-parts identities lead only to a coupled system of four first-order differential equations.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4360




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