<p>We define and study infinite families of all-loop planar, dual conformal invariant (DCI) integrals, which contribute to four-point Coulomb-branch amplitudes and correlators in <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(\mathcal{N}=4\)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, by solving “boxing” differential equations via HyperlogProcedures [<a href="https://www.math.fau.de/person/oliver-schnetz/">https://www.math.fau.de/person/oliver-schnetz/</a>]; the resulting single-valued harmonic polylogarithmic functions (SVHPL) are nicely labeled by “binary” strings of 0 and 1 without consecutive 1’s. These functions are special cases of the so-called generalized ladders studied in [<i>JHEP</i> <b>02</b> (2013) 092], where extended Steinmann relations (no consecutive 1’s) are imposed due to planarity. Our results can be viewed as “two-dimensional” extensions of the well-known ladder integrals to many more infinite families of DCI integrals: the ladders have strings with a single 1 followed by all 0’s, and the other extreme, which nicely evaluate to the “zigzag” SVHPL functions with alternating 1’s and 0’s, are nothing but the four-point DCI integrals from the very special family of anti-prism <i>f</i>-graphs (while all other binary DCI integrals lie in between these two extreme cases). We also study periods of these integrals: while their periods are in general complicated single-valued multiple zeta values (SVMZV), the “zigzag” DCI integrals from anti-prism gives exactly the famous “zigzag” periods proportional to <i>ζ</i><sub>2<i>L</i>+1</sub>, and empirically it provides a numerical lower-bound for <i>L</i>-loop periods of any binary string, with the upper-bound given by that of the ladder (also proportional to <i>ζ</i><sub>2<i>L</i>+1</sub>). Based on <i>f</i>-graphs as a tool for studying these periods, we discuss several interesting facts and observations about these (motivic) SVMZV and relations among them to all loops, and enumerate a basis for them up to <i>L</i> = 10.</p>

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On solving dual conformal integrals in Coulomb-branch amplitudes and their periods

  • Song He,
  • Xuhang Jiang

摘要

We define and study infinite families of all-loop planar, dual conformal invariant (DCI) integrals, which contribute to four-point Coulomb-branch amplitudes and correlators in \(\mathcal{N}=4\) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, by solving “boxing” differential equations via HyperlogProcedures [https://www.math.fau.de/person/oliver-schnetz/]; the resulting single-valued harmonic polylogarithmic functions (SVHPL) are nicely labeled by “binary” strings of 0 and 1 without consecutive 1’s. These functions are special cases of the so-called generalized ladders studied in [JHEP 02 (2013) 092], where extended Steinmann relations (no consecutive 1’s) are imposed due to planarity. Our results can be viewed as “two-dimensional” extensions of the well-known ladder integrals to many more infinite families of DCI integrals: the ladders have strings with a single 1 followed by all 0’s, and the other extreme, which nicely evaluate to the “zigzag” SVHPL functions with alternating 1’s and 0’s, are nothing but the four-point DCI integrals from the very special family of anti-prism f-graphs (while all other binary DCI integrals lie in between these two extreme cases). We also study periods of these integrals: while their periods are in general complicated single-valued multiple zeta values (SVMZV), the “zigzag” DCI integrals from anti-prism gives exactly the famous “zigzag” periods proportional to ζ2L+1, and empirically it provides a numerical lower-bound for L-loop periods of any binary string, with the upper-bound given by that of the ladder (also proportional to ζ2L+1). Based on f-graphs as a tool for studying these periods, we discuss several interesting facts and observations about these (motivic) SVMZV and relations among them to all loops, and enumerate a basis for them up to L = 10.