New graph polynomials in parametric QED Feynman integrals

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2017.08.010zbMATH Open1372.81066arXiv1703.05134OpenAlexW2950169157MaRDI QIDQ2409883FDOQ2409883

Authors: Marcel Golz 

Publication date: 16 October 2017

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In recent years enormous progress has been made in perturbative quantum field theory by applying methods of algebraic geometry to parametric Feynman integrals for scalar theories. The transition to gauge theories is complicated not only by the fact that their parametric integrand is much larger and more involved. It is, moreover, only implicitly given as the result of certain differential operators applied to the scalar integrand $exp(-Ph{i}_{Gamma}/Ps{i}_{Gamma})$, where $Ps{i}_{Gamma}$ and $Ph{i}_{Gamma}$ are the Kirchhoff and Symanzik polynomials of the Feynman graph $Gamma$. In the case of quantum electrodynamics we find that the full parametric integrand inherits a rich combinatorial structure from $Ps{i}_{Gamma}$ and $Ph{i}_{Gamma}$. In the end, it can be expressed explicitly as a sum over products of new types of graph polynomials which have a combinatoric interpretation via simple cycle subgraphs of $Gamma$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05134

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zbMATH Keywords

graph polynomialquantum electrodynamicsFeynman integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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