DESY Theory Seminar

New techniques for Feynman integrals

by Claude Duhr (ETH Zurich)

Europe/Berlin
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Description
I discuss new techniques that can be used to compute multi-loop multi-leg Feynman integrals. Feynman integrals are generically expressed in terms of multiple polylogarithms and generalizations thereof. I review the symbol calculus, a tensor calculus that associates to each multiple polylogarithm a tensor over a certain space of functions. This tensor calculus embodies conjecturally all the functional equations among multiple polylogarithms, and therefore provides an effective way to simplify analytic results, revealing a sometimes unexpected simplicity for complicated Feynman integrals and scattering amplitudes.
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