Extensions

Example 5.5.1. We can extend theorem 3.6.24 with every graph whose forest function has a compatibility graph bounded by (S , C ). A classic example (apart from box

G=

v

1

v

²

v

³

v

4

y x

γ

^{G4 =}

p1 p2

p3

p4 1 2

3

4

5 6

7 8

9

Figure 5.20.: Construction of a 4-point function G from a 3-point function γ and a linearly reducible 4-loop 4-point integral.

ladders) is the tennis court diagram T₃ shown in figure 5.19 for massless propagators and light-like (on-shell) external momenta. It was evaluated first in a very special case in [16] (using a Mellin-Barnes representation) in terms of harmonic polylogarithms and multiple zeta values. Recently its expansion inD= 4−2εwith unit indicesa_e= 1 was obtained to arbitrary order (with the differential equations method), also in terms of harmonic polylogarithms [95].

Therefore we expected it to be linear reducible, but this assumption fails in Schwinger parameters as was noted in [123, figure 7.3 (b)]. Our formalism of forest integrals (which uses different coordinatesf_i/ψ) does apply though: We could compute the forest function (2.5.3) directly for the upright double boxT2 and obtained

f_T2(z) = z₃z₄

(z14+z3+z4)Q²log(z₁₄+z₃)(z₁₄+z₄) z3z4

∈B^O0

S ^ (5.5.6) in D = 6 dimensions with unit indices a_e = 1. Since all of the occurring polynomi-als{Q, z₁₄+z₃+z₄, z₁₄+z₃, z₁₄+z₄}are mutually compatible inC , we immediately conclude that theorem 3.6.24 extends to all graphs that we can construct from T2 by iteration of the edge additions from figure 2.14. This includes the original tennis court T₃ and the higher loop generalizationsT_n. As a test we successfully calculated Φ(T₅) in D= 6 dimensions.

Example 5.5.2. In our experimental studies, we found several linearly reducible 4-point functions which are not minors of box ladders. One example is the graphG₄ shown in figure 5.20, which we computed in [137] in terms of MZV and HPL. In D = 4−2ε with unit indices a_e = 1, the leading term Φ(G₄) =f−1/(sε) +O^ε^0evaluates to the harmonic polylogarithms

f−1=−⁷⁹₇₀ζ₂³H−1−ζ₃(15ζ₂H−1,−1−9ζ₂H−1,0−H−1,−2,−1+H−1,−1,−2+ 6H−1,−1,0,0)

−6ζ₃²H−1−³₂ζ₅(11H−1,−1−5H−1,0)−₁₀³ ζ₂²(H−1,−2−17H−1,−1,0−10H−1,−1,−1)

−ζ₂^H−1,−2,0,0−2H−1,−1,−2,0+ 3H−1,−1,−2,−1−H−1,−1,−1,0,0+ 6H−1,−1,−3

−3H−1,−2,−1,−1−2H−1,−1,0,0,0

+H−1,−2,−1,0,0,0−H−1,−1,−2,−1,0,0

+H−1,−1,−2,0,0,0−2H−1,−1,−3,0,0+H−1,−2,−1,−1,0,0 (5.5.7)

whereH_⃗n:=H_⃗n(s/t) from (3.4.14) withs= (p1+p4)² andt= (p1+p4)². We can now combine our propositions 3.6.17 and 3.6.21 to extend our results on linear reducibility such that G₄ (and many more additional graphs) are covered.

Consider a 3-point graph γ and add a fourth external vertex via edges x ={v₄, v1} and y={v₄, v3} to define a 4-point graphG as illustrated in figure 5.20. Then one can show (with the same methods we used in section 2.5.1) that

f_G(z) = Q⁴ z²₁₂z³₃z₄³

Q z₃

ax−1 Q z₁₂

ay−1 Q² z₁₂z₃z₄

−D/2

 ∞ 0

f_γ

z₁₄Q z₃z₄, u, Q

z₄

 du.

(5.5.8) If the inner forest function f_γ ∈B^O(S ) has compatibilities inC , this formula shows via a linear reduction that f_G ∈B^O({z₁₂, z₁₄, z₃, z₄, Q, z₁₄+z₃}). In this case its com-patibility graph is contained in (S , C ) and we can append edges according to fig-ure 2.14 without ever leaving this space of functions. If we apply this construction to γ = WS⁻₃ (figure 2.9), we obtain first the subgraph G of G4 that consists of the edges {1,2,3,6,7,8,9} and can then append {4,5}to reachG₄.

Appendix A

Short reference of HyperInt

A.1. Options and global variables

_hyper_verbosity (default: 1)

The higher the value of this integer, the more progress information is printed during calculations. The value zero means no such output at all.

_hyper_verbose_frequency (default: 10)

Sets how often progress output is produced during integration or polynomial re-duction.

_hyper_return_tables (default: false)

When true, integrationStepreturns a table instead of a list. This is useful for huge calculations, because Maplecan not work with long lists.

_hyper_check_divergences (default: true)

When active, endpoint singularities at z→0,∞ are detected in the computation of integrals ^₀^∞f(z) dz.

_hyper_abort_on_divergence (default: true)

This option is useful when divergences are detected erroneously, as happens when periods occur for which no basis is supplied to the program.

_hyper_divergences

A table collecting all divergences that were detected.

_hyper_max_pole_order (default: 10)

Sets the maximum values of i and j in (4.5.5) for which the functions Fi,j are computed to check for potential divergencesF_i,j ̸= 0.

_hyper_splitting_field (default: ∅)

This set R of radicals defines the field K = Q(R) of constants over which all factorizations are performed.

_hyper_algebraic_roots (default: false)

Whentrue, all polynomials will be factored linearly by introducing algebraic func-tions as zeros whenever necessary. Further computafunc-tions with such irrational let-ters are not supported.

_hyper_ignore_nonlinear_polynomials (default: false)

If set to true, all non-linear polynomials (that would result in algebraic zeros as letters) will be dropped during integration. This is permissible when linear reducibility is granted.

_hyper_restrict_singularities (default: false)

When true, the rewriting of f as a hyperlogarithm in z (performed during inte-gration) projects onto the algebraL(Σ) of letters Σ specified by the roots of the set_hyper_allowed_singularities(default: ∅) of irreducible polynomials. This can speed up the integration significantly.

A.2. Maple functions extended by HyperInt

convert(f,form) with form∈ {Hlog,Mpl,HlogRegInf}

Rewrites polylogarithmsf in terms of hyper- or polylogarithms using lemma 3.4.2.

Choosingform=HlogRegInf transformsf into the list representation (4.3.2).

diff(f, z)

Computes the partial derivative∂tf of hyperlogarithmsHlog(z(t), w(t)) and mul-tiple polylogarithmsMpl(⃗n, ⃗z(t)) that occur inf, using (3.3.32) and (3.4.3). Note that this works completely generally, i.e. also when a wordw(t) depends on t.

series(f, z= 0)

Implements the expansion off =L_w(z) atz→ 0. To expand at different points, usefibrationBasis first as explained in the manual.

A.3. New functions provided by HyperInt

Note that there are further functions in the package, cf. the manual.

hyperInt(f, ⃗z) with a list ⃗z= [z1, . . . , zr] or single ⃗z=z1

Computes^₀^∞dz_r. . .^₀^∞dz₁f from right to left. Any variable can also be given as zi =ai..bi to specify the bounds ^_a^bi

idzi instead.

integrationStep(f, z)

Computes^₀^∞f dz forf in the form (4.3.2).

fibrationBasis(f,[z1, . . . , zr], F, S)

Rewritesf as an element ofL(Σ₁)(z1)⊗. . .⊗L(Σ_r)(zr)⊗Caccording to (3.6.13).

Note that in general this will require algebraic alphabets Σ_i⊂C(z_i+1, . . . , z_r) and

the option _hyper_algebraic_roots = true (even if in the final result all non-rational letters happen to cancel).¹ An optional table F (with indexing function sparsereduced) may be supplied to store the result, otherwise Hlog-expressions are returned.

If the optional fourth argument S is supplied, it is assumed to be a table and for each defined key z_i of S, the result is projected onto L(Σ^S_i)(z_i) restricting to letters Σ^S_i := Σ_i(S[z_i]) = {zeros of p(z_i) : p∈S[z_i]}. All words including other letters are dropped in the computation.

index/sparsereduced

This indexing function corresponds toMaple’ssparse, but entries with value zero are removed from the table. It is used to collect coefficients of hyperlogarithms.

forgetAll()

Invalidates cache tables for internal functions and should be called whenever global options were changed.

transformWord(w, t)

Given a word w= [σ₁, . . . , σ_n]∈Σ^× with letters Σ⊂C(t) that depend rationally on t, returns a list [[w1, u1], . . .] of pairs such that

Reg

z→∞L_w(z) =^

i

L_wi(t)·Reg

z→∞L_ui(z)

following proposition 3.3.31. Each ui is given in the product form (4.3.2).

reglimWord(w, t)

Given a word w = [σ₁, . . . , σ_n]∈ Σ^× with rational letters Σ ⊂C(t) and σ_n ̸= 0, it implements our algorithm from section 3.3.3 and returns a linear combinationu of words in the representation (4.3.2) such that

Reg

t→0

Reg

z→∞L_w(z) = Reg

z→∞L_u(z).

integrate(f, z)

Takes a hyperlogarithm f(z) in the form (4.3.1) and returns a primitive F such that ∂zF(z) =f(z), which is computed following the proof of lemma 3.3.9.

cgReduction(L,todo, d)

Computes compatibility graphs L[Ki] = (S_Ki, C_Ki) (and stores them in the table L) for all setsK_iof variables asked for in the listtodo= [K₁, . . .]. This implements the original algorithm presented in [49] and considers only projections where each polynomial is of degree d(default valued= 1) or less in the reduction variable.

1One can also use_hyper_ignore_nonlinear_polynomials = true, provided that one knows that only rational letters will remain.

One may also pass a set in the parametertodo(as opposed to a list). In this case reductions are computed for all sets K that do not contain any element of todo.

This is useful when one wants to compute all reductions of a Feynman graph with respect to Schwinger parameters (one would settodo= Θ to ignore all reductions which involve kinematic invariants).

checkIntegrationOrder(L, ⃗z)

Tests whether for the order ⃗z = [z₁, . . .] all polynomials in the reduction L are linear in the correspondingz_i and prints the number of polynomials.

A.3.1. Functions related to Feynman integrals

In the following functions, graphsG= (V, E) are always assumed to be connected and encoded only by their listE = [e₁, . . . , e_|E|] of oriented edges e= [∂⁻(e), ∂⁺(e)] which are defined by a pair of vertices (the choice of orientation does not matter). All vertices V =^_e∈Eemust be integers and numbered consecutively such thatV ={1, . . . ,|V|}.

graphPolynomial(E)

Computes the first Symanzik polynomialψof the graph with edgesEusing (2.1.9).

forestPolynomial(E, P)

Returns the spanning forest polynomial Φ^P from definition 2.1.6 of the graph with edge listE. The partitionP ={P₁, . . . , Pr}of a subset of vertices must consist of pairwise disjoint, non-empty partsPi.

secondPolynomial(E, p, m)

Computes the second Symanzik polynomial φ for the graph with edges E that denote scalar propagatorsP_e=k²_e+m²_e. External momentap(v_i) entering at vertex vi must be passed as a list p = [[v1, p(v1)²], . . .]. The list m = [m²₁, . . . , m²_|E|] of internal masses is optional. If it is omitted, the massless casem₁=· · ·=m_|E|= 0 will be assumed.

graphicalFunction(E, V_ext)

Returns the projective parametric integrand (2.1.36) with (2.1.39) for a graphical function [150] in D = 4 dimensions. The edge list E = [e1, . . . , e_|E|] can contain setse_i ={v_i,1, v_i,2} to denote propagators (with a_ei = 1) and lists e_i = [v_i,1, v_i,2] for inverse propagators (in the numerator, that isa_ei =−1) in compatibility with polylog_procedures².

The external vertices must be specified in the orderV_ext = [v_z, v₀, v₁, v∞], where v∞is optional. When present,v∞is first deleted from the graph and the graphical function of the remainder is computed.

2ThisMapleprogram for graphical functions by Oliver Schnetz is described in [150] and can be obtained from [149].

drawGraph(E, p, m, s)

Draws the graph defined by the edge listE. The remaining parameters are optional:

p and m are as for secondPolynomial and highlight the external vertices and massive edges, while s∈ {circle,tree,bipartite,spring,planar}sets the style of the drawing as in GraphTheory[DrawGraph].

findDivergences(I,Θ)

For any scaling vector ϱ with ϱ_e ∈ {−1,0,1} the degree ω_ϱ(I) of divergence is computed. The return value is a table indexed by sets R and holds those ω_ϱ(I) that are ≤ 0 when ε = 0. Each R contains only variables or their inverses and encodes the vector ϱ through ϱ_e=±1 when α^±1_e ∈R and ϱ_e= 0 otherwise.

The variables in the set Θ are considered fixed parameters (not to be integrated over), so only sets withR∩^z, z⁻¹: z∈Θ^=∅will be considered.

Remark A.3.1. This method is only guaranteed to detect divergences completely when I is the parametric integrand of a Feynman integral with Euclidean kine-matics (corollary 2.2.10). Otherwise more general scaling vectors can be relevant and an algorithm as presented in [131] should be used instead.

dimregPartial(I, R, ω)

Computes the new integrandD_ϱ(I) after a partial integration according to (2.2.17).

The scaling vector is specified through the setR which may contain variables and their inverses such that ρ_e =±1 ifα^±1_e ∈R and ϱ_e= 0 otherwise. The degree of divergence must be passed asω=ω_ϱ(I).

Appendix B

Explicit results

Mainly for illustration of the different kind of results we obtained, a few explicit ex-amples are shown in this chapter. A systematic and complete computation of massless propagators up to three loops (with some examples at four loops) was presented in [134]

and several multi-scale expansions are demonstrated in [137].

B.1. Integrals of the Ising class

The first values of the integralsEn from (4.5.3) are

E₂ = 6−8 ln 2, (B.1.1)

E₃ = 32 ln²2−12ζ₂−8 ln 2 + 10, (B.1.2)

E₄ =−²⁵⁶₃ ln³2−82ζ₃+ (96 ln 2−44)ζ₂+ 176 ln²2−24 ln 2 + 22, (B.1.3) E5 = ⁵¹²₃ ln⁴2−³¹⁸₅ ζ₂²−992ζ_1,−3+ (464ζ₃−40) ln 2

+^80 ln 2−124−256 ln²2^ζ₂−74ζ₃+ 464 ln²2 + 42, (B.1.4) E₆ =−⁴⁰⁹⁶₁₅ ln⁵2 + 768 ln⁴2 +^1024₃ ζ₂+⁷⁰⁴₃ ^ln³2 + (384ζ₃+ 512ζ₂+ 1360) ln²2

−^3216₅ ζ₂²−11 520ζ_1,−3+ 2632ζ₃+ 272ζ₂88^ln 2 + ^{53 775}₂ ζ₅

+ 830ζ₂²−(13 964ζ₃+ 348)ζ₂+ 27 904ζ_1,1,−3−6048ζ_1,−3+ 134ζ₃+ 86, (B.1.5) E7 = 63 616ζ_1,1,−3−575 488ζ_1,1,1,−3+^{16 384}₄₅ ln⁶2 +⁴⁰⁹⁶₁₅ ln⁵2 + 2432 ln⁴2

+^512₃ ζ₂−^{20 992}₃ ζ₃+ 832^ln³2 +^{69 056}₅ ζ₂²+ 6400ζ₃+ 2336ζ₂+ 3280^ln²2

+^161 760ζ₂ζ₃−340 588ζ₅−688ζ₂−9304ζ₂²−168−312 320ζ_1,1,−3−12 472ζ₃^ln 2 +^19 840 ln 2−21 696−64 000 ln²2−8320ζ₂^ζ_1,−3+ 942 624ζ_1,−5−32 624ζ₂ζ₃ +^{149 851}₂ ζ₅+^{4 209 858}₃₅ ζ₂³+^{18 402}₅ ζ₂²−844ζ₂−380 881ζ₃²+ 350ζ₃+ 170, (B.1.6)

Figure B.1.: Examples of linearly reducible graphs with some massive internal and off-shell external momenta (thick edges).

E₈= 12 926 976ζ_1,1,1,1,−3+^211 456ζ₂+ 1 761 280 ln²2−1 697 792 ln 2 + 192 128^ζ_1,1,−3 +^282 176ζ₃+ (40 960 ln 2 + 32 128)ζ₂−294 912 ln²2 + 22 656 ln 2−84 704

+^{655 360}₃ ln³2^ζ_1,−3−^{62 466 560}₁₇ ζ_1,3,−3+ (7 045 120 ln 2−3 602 432)ζ_1,1,1,−3 +^(687 888 ln 2−818 624 ln²2−62 372)ζ₂+^{77 824}₃ ln⁴2−^{8 206 978}₁₇ ζ₂²−^{210 176}₃ ln³2

+ 17 072 ln²2−53 064 ln 2 + 1790^ζ₃−230 302 165

136 ζ₇+^{1 493 504}₁₇ ζ_1,1,−5 +^{4 034 546}₅ −^{54 575 568}₃₅ ln 2^ζ₂³+ (4 757 064 ln 2−2 434 920)ζ₃²+ 6 195 680ζ_1,−5 +^−^{1 022 464}₁₅ ln³2 +^{591 744}₅ ln²2−^{169 624}₅ ln 2 + ^{76 958}₅ ^ζ₂²+^{340 095}₂ ζ₅+ 342

+^{33 352 925}₁₇ ζ₅− ^{16 384}₁₅ ln⁵2 +^{28 672}₃ ln⁴2 + 256 ln³2 + 11 424 ln²2−2960 ln 2−2060^ζ₂

−^{131 072}₃₁₅ ln⁷2 +^{57 344}₄₅ ln⁶2 + 2048 ln⁵2 + 7488 ln⁴2 + 2752 ln³2

+ (1 977 632ζ₅+ 8080) ln²2−^12 015 360ζ_1,−5+ 1 819 522ζ₅+ 344^ln 2. (B.1.7)

B.2. A massive 2-loop 6-scale integral

In found several Feynman integrals with massive internal propagators that are linearly reducible (in Schwinger parameters). Some examples are shown in figure B.1 and a few explicit results were computed [137], like the crossed box (or double-triangle)

Φ









p2 p3

p4 p1

1 2

3 4 5









= Γ(1 + 2ε)

(p+q−s−u)m^2+4ε₃

∞



n=−1

f_n(p, s, u, q, m)·εⁿ (B.2.1)

inD = 4−2εdimensions with unit indices ae = 1. It depends on the masses of edges 3 and 4, the Mandelstam invariants and the off-shell momenta p₃ and p₄ (we assume

p²₂ =p²₄= 0). We scaled outm²₃ and introduced the dimensionless variables Note that (B.2.1) has a pole inεwhich reflects the infrared subdivergenceγ ={3,4,5}.

The polynomial reduction leaves the polynomials

S_{3,4,5,2}=^1−m, p+m, p−s, p−u,1 +q, q−s, s+m, q−u,1 +u, pq−us, s−qm, p−um,1−p−m+u, p−s−u+q, p−s+qm−um, s−pq−qm+us, 1−s−m+q, p−us−um+pq, pq+p−us−s+qm−um^ (B.2.3) which are linear in each variable, hence we can express the coefficient functions f_n in terms of hyperlogarithms with rational letters. We choose the base point at 0 ≪ p ≪ s≪u≪q ≪mand abbreviateSw :=Lw(s),Uw :=Lw(u),Mw :=Lw(m),Pw :=Lw(p) and the results forf₀,f₁ andf₂ are provided in [137]. To our knowledge, this is the first higher order calculation of a two-loop integral that involves 2 masses and as many as 6 kinematic scales in total.

B.3. The 4-loop ladder box

In D= 6, the 4-loop ladder box B4 evaluates on-shell (p²₁ =· · ·=p²₄ = 0) to harmonic polylogarithmsH_⃗n:=H_⃗n(x) of the ratiox=t/sof Mandelstam invariantst= (p₁+p₄)²

and s= (p1+p2)². In the notation (3.4.14) we find Φ(B4) = A

s+t+B

t where (B.3.1)

A=−⁸₅(24H−2−30H−1+ 5H0−18H−2,−1+ 3H−2,0−18H−1,−2−6ζ₃+ 18)ζ₂² + 6H−2,0,0−²⁴⁸₃₅ (3H−1−4)ζ₂³−8 (3H−1−4)ζ₃²−6H−1,0,0+ 32H−3,−1,0,0

+ 8H−2,−2,0,0−10H−2,−1,0,0−10H−1,−2,0,0−6H−2,−2,−1,0,0−6H−2,−1,−2,0,0

+ 2^9H−2−9H−1+ 3H₀+ 48H−3,−1−16H−3,0+ 12H−2,−2−15H−2,−1

+ 5H−2,0−15H−1,−2−6H_0,0−9H−2,−2,−1+ 3H−2,−2,0−9H−2,−1,−2

−8H−2,0,0−36H−1,−3,−1+ 12H−1,−3,0−9H−1,−2,−2+ 10H−1,0,0−24ζ₅ + 6H−2,−1,0,0+ 6H−1,−2,0,0

ζ₂−12 (3H−2+ 5)ζ₅−6H−1,−2,−2,0,0

+ 2^16H−3−5H−2−6H₀−3H−2,−2−8H−2,0−12H−1,−3+ 10H−1,0−3 + 6H−2,−1,0+ 6H−1,−2,0



ζ₃−84ζ₇−24H−1,−3,−1,0,0 and (B.3.2) B=−⁸₅^2H−1ζ₃−18H−1+ 30H−1,−1−5H−1,0+ 6H−1,−2,−1−H−1,−2,0

+ 6H−1,−1,−2

ζ₂²+²⁴⁸₃₅H−1,−1ζ₂³+ 8H−1,−1ζ₃²+ 28H−1ζ₇−24H−2,−1,0,0

+ 18H−1,−1,0,0+ 10H−1,−2,−1,0,0+ 10H−1,−1,−2,0,0+ 2H−1,−2,−2,−1,0,0

+ 2^8H−1ζ₅−36H−2,−1+ 12H−2,0−9H−1,−2+ 27H−1,−1−9H−1,0

+ 15H−1,−2,−1−5H−1,−2,0+ 15H−1,−1,−2+ 6H−1,0,0+ 3H−1,−2,−2,−1

−H−1,−2,−2,0+ 3H−1,−2,−1,−2+ 12H−1,−1,−3,−1−4H−1,−1,−3,0

+ 3H−1,−1,−2,−2−10H−1,−1,0,0−2H−1,−2,−1,0,0−2H−1,−1,−2,0,0

ζ₂

−2^12H−2−9H−1−5H−1,−2−6H−1,0−H−1,−2,−2−4H−1,−1,−3+ 10H−1,−1,0

+ 2H−1,−2,−1,0+ 2H−1,−1,−2,0



ζ₃+ 12 (5H−1+H−1,−2)ζ₅−6H−1,−2,0,0

+ 2H−1,−1,−2,−2,0,0+ 2H−1,−2,−1,−2,0,0+ 8H−1,−1,−3,−1,0,0. (B.3.3)

Appendix C

Erratum to Lewin

Plenty of functional and integral equations of polylogarithms, taken from the excellent books [120, 121], were used as checks for our program HyperInt. These tests revealed a very few misprints in [120]. Because this work is still frequently being referred to, we list our corrections here:

• Equation (7.93): −⁹₄π²log²(ξ) must be −₁₂⁹π²log²(ξ).

• Equation (7.99), repeated as (44) in appendix A.2.7: The second term−⁹₄π²log³(ξ) of the last line must be replaced with−³₄π²log³(ξ).

• Equation A.3.5. (9): The terms −2 Li₃(1/x) + 2 Li₃(1) should read + Li₃(1/x)− Li₃(1) instead.

• In equation (7.132), a factor ¹₂ in front of the second summand Dⁿ_p=0¹_p{· · · } is missing (it is correctly given in 7.131).

• Equation (8.80): (1−v) inside the argument of the fourth Li2-summand must be replaced by (1 +v), so that after including the corrections mentioned in the following paragraph, the correct identity reads

0 = Li₂

(1 +v)w 1 +w

 + Li₂

−(1−v)w 1−w



−Li₂

−(1−v²)w² 1−w²



+ Li₂

(1−v)w 1 +w

 + Li₂

−(1 +v)w 1−w

 +1

2log²

1 +w 1−w

 .

(C.0.1)

• Equation (16.46) of [121]: x² must readx⁻².

• Equation (16.57) of [121]: ^π₄₀⁴ must read ^π₃₀⁴.

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