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Feynman integrals and hyperlogarithms
We study Feynman integrals in the representation with Schwinger parameters
and derive recursive integral formulas for massless 3- and 4-point functions.
Properties of analytic (including dimensional) regularization are summarized
and we prove that in the Euclidean region, each Feynman integral can be written
as a linear combination of convergent Feynman integrals. This means that one
can choose a basis of convergent master integrals and need not evaluate any
divergent Feynman graph directly.
Secondly we give a self-contained account of hyperlogarithms and explain in
detail the algorithms needed for their application to the evaluation of
multivariate integrals. We define a new method to track singularities of such
integrals and present a computer program that implements the integration
method.
As our main result, we prove the existence of infinite families of massless
3- and 4-point graphs (including the ladder box graphs with arbitrary loop
number and their minors) whose Feynman integrals can be expressed in terms of
multiple polylogarithms, to all orders in the epsilon-expansion. These
integrals can be computed effectively with the presented program.
We include interesting examples of explicit results for Feynman integrals
with up to 6 loops. In particular we present the first exactly computed
counterterm in massless phi^4 theory which is not a multiple zeta value, but a
linear combination of multiple polylogarithms at primitive sixth roots of unity
(and divided by ). To this end we derive a parity result on the
reducibility of the real- and imaginary parts of such numbers into products and
terms of lower depth.Comment: PhD thesis, 220 pages, many figure