Differential equations, associators, and recurrences for amplitudes

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2015.11.005MaRDI QIDQ253045zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Georg Puhlfürst, S. Stieberger

Publication date 7 March 2016

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01582

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35) Power series, series of functions of several complex variables (32A05) Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: We provide new methods to straightforwardly obtain compact and analytic expressions for epsilon-expansions of functions appearing in both field and string theory amplitudes. An algebraic method is presented to explicitly solve for recurrence relations connecting different epsilon-orders of a power series solution in epsilon of a differential equation. This strategy generalizes the usual iteration by Picard's method. Our tools are demonstrated for generalized hypergeometric functions. Furthermore, we match the epsilon-expansion of specific generalized hypergeometric functions with the underlying Drinfeld associator with proper Lie algebra and monodromy representations. We also apply our tools for computing epsilon-expansions for solutions to generic first-order Fuchsian equations (Schlesinger system). Finally, we set up our methods to systematically get compact and explicit alpha'-expansions of tree-level superstring amplitudes to any order in alpha'.

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