On the maximal cut of Feynman integrals and the solution of their differential equations

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.12.021MaRDI QIDQ512705zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Amedeo Primo, Lorenzo Tancredi

Publication date 27 February 2017

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/1610.08397

zbMATH Keywords

Euler's variation of constants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Systems of linear first-order PDEs (35F35) Systems of linear higher-order PDEs (35G35)

Abstract: The standard procedure for computing scalar multi-loop Feynman integrals consists in reducing them to a basis of so-called master integrals, derive differential equations in the external invariants satisfied by the latter and, finally, try to solve them as a Laurent series in $epsilon=(4-d)/2$, where $d$ are the space-time dimensions. The differential equations are, in general, coupled and can be solved using Euler's variation of constants, provided that a set of homogeneous solutions is known. Given an arbitrary differential equation of order higher than one, there exist no general method for finding its homogeneous solutions. In this paper we show that the maximal cut of the integrals under consideration provides one set of homogeneous solutions, simplifying substantially the solution of the differential equations.

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