Evaluating single-scale and/or non-planar diagrams by differential equations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Henn, Johannes M ^a   Smirnov, Alexander V ^b   Smirnov, Vladimir A ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential and Algebraic Geometry; Integrable Equations in Physics; Scattering Amplitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901415194     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2014)088     Document Type: Article

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