The Number of Master Integrals is Finite

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-44

  Smirnov, Alexander V ^a   Petukhov, Alexey V ^a,b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

algebraic groups; D modules; Feynman integrals

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956133881     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: 15730530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-010-0450-0     Document Type: Article

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