Seminar series
Date
Tue, 16 Oct 2018
14:45
Location
C1
Speaker
Jake Bourjaily
Organisation
Neils Bohr Institute

In this informal talk, I describe the kinds of functions relevant to scattering amplitudes in perturbative, four-dimensional quantum field theories. In particular, I will argue that generic amplitudes are non-polylogarithmic (beyond one loop), but that there is an upper bound to their geometric complexity. Moreover, I show a veritable `bestiary' of examples which saturate this bound in complexity---including three, all-loop families of integrals defined in massless $\phi^4$ theory which can, at best, be represented as dilogarithms integrated over (2L-2)-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifolds. 

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