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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Henn, Johannes M.
• Smirnov, Alexander V.
• Smirnov, Vladimir A.

Titel

Analytic results for planar three-loop four-point integrals from a Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation

Ist Teil von

• The journal of high energy physics, 2013-07, Vol.2013 (7), p.1-28, Article 128

Ort / Verlag

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Springer Nature - Complete Springer Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A bstract We apply a recently suggested new strategy to solve differential equations for master integrals for families of Feynman integrals. After a set of master integrals has been found using the integration-by-parts method, the crucial point of this strategy is to introduce a new basis where all master integrals are pure functions of uniform transcendentality. In this paper, we apply this method to all planar three-loop four-point massless on-shell master integrals. We explicitly find such a basis, and show that the differential equations are of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov type. We explain how to solve the latter to all orders in the dimensional regularization parameter ϵ , including all boundary constants, in a purely algebraic way. The solution is expressed in terms of harmonic polylogarithms. We explicitly write out the Laurent expansion in ϵ for all master integrals up to weight six.