Period preserving properties of an invariant from the permanent of signed incidence matrices

DOI10.4171/AIHPD/35zbMATH Open1355.05117arXiv1505.06987OpenAlexW2964194212MaRDI QIDQ509907FDOQ509907

Karen Yeats, Matt DeVos, Iain Crump

Publication date: 15 February 2017

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D. Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions (AIHPD) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A 4-point Feynman diagram in scalar $ph{i}^4$ theory is represented by a graph $G$ which is obtained from a connected 4-regular graph by deleting a vertex. The associated Feynman integral gives a quantity called the period of $G$ which is invariant under a number of meaningful graph operations - namely, planar duality, the Schnetz twist, and it also does not depend on the choice of vertex which was deleted to form $G$. In this article we study a graph invariant we call the graph permanent, which was implicitly introduced in a paper by Alon, Linial and Meshulam. The graph permanent applies to any graph $G=(V,E)$ for which $|E|$ is a multiple of $|V|-1$ (so in particular to graphs obtained from a 4-regular graph by removing a vertex). We prove that the graph permanent, like the period, is invariant under planar duality and the Schnetz twist when these are valid operations, and we show that when $G$ is obtained from a $2k$-regular graph by deleting a vertex, the graph permanent does not depend on the choice of deleted vertex.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06987

zbMATH Keywords

permanentFeynman graphFeynman period

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in graphs (05C21) Connectivity (05C40) Feynman diagrams (81T18)

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