Journal of High Energy Physics (Mar 2018)

Solving differential equations for Feynman integrals by expansions near singular points

  • Roman N. Lee,
  • Alexander V. Smirnov,
  • Vladimir A. Smirnov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2018)008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2018, no. 3
pp. 1 – 15

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Abstract We describe a strategy to solve differential equations for Feynman integrals by powers series expansions near singular points and to obtain high precision results for the corresponding master integrals. We consider Feynman integrals with two scales, i.e. non-trivially depending on one variable. The corresponding algorithm is oriented at situations where canonical form of the differential equations is impossible. We provide a computer code constructed with the help of our algorithm for a simple example of four-loop generalized sunset integrals with three equal non-zero masses and two zero masses. Our code gives values of the master integrals at any given point on the real axis with a required accuracy and a given order of expansion in the regularization parameter ϵ.

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