New proofs for the two Barnes lemmas and an additional lemma

DOI10.1063/1.4775770zbMATH Open1280.81097arXiv1211.2637OpenAlexW3105225531WikidataQ125025740 ScholiaQ125025740MaRDI QIDQ5396243FDOQ5396243

Bernd Jantzen

Publication date: 5 February 2014

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

Abstract: Mellin-Barnes (MB) representations have become a widely used tool for the evaluation of Feynman loop integrals appearing in perturbative calculations of quantum field theory. Some of the MB integrals may be solved analytically in closed form with the help of the two Barnes lemmas which have been known in mathematics already for one century. The original proofs of these lemmas solve the integrals by taking infinite series of residues and summing these up via hypergeometric functions. This paper presents new, elegant proofs for the Barnes lemmas which only rely on the well-known basic identity of MB representations, avoiding any series summations. They are particularly useful for presenting and proving the Barnes lemmas to students of quantum field theory without requiring knowledge on hypergeometric functions. The paper also introduces and proves an additional lemma for a MB integral int dz involving a phase factor exp(+-i pi z).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2637

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integration, integrals of Cauchy type, integral representations of analytic functions in the complex plane (30E20) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Hypergeometric integrals and functions defined by them ((E), (G), (H) and (I) functions) (33C60)

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Uses Software

• MBasymptotics
• MBresolve

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