Souto Gonçalves de abreu, Samuel
[UCL]
Britto, Ruth
[Trinity College]
Duhr, Claude
[CERN]
Gardi, Einan
[University of Edinburgh]
Matthew, James
[University of Edinburgh]
It is well known that Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization often evaluate to functions of hypergeometric type. Inspired by a recent proposal for a coaction on one-loop Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization, we use intersection numbers and twisted homology theory to define a coaction on certain hypergeometric functions. The functions we consider admit an integral representation where both the integrand and the contour of integration are associated with positive geometries. As in dimensionally- regularized Feynman integrals, endpoint singularities are regularized by means of exponents controlled by a small parameter ϵ. We show that the coaction defined on this class of integral is consistent, upon expansion in ϵ, with the well-known coaction on multiple polylogarithms. We illustrate the validity of our construction by explicitly determining the coaction on various types of hypergeometric p+1Fp and Appell functions.
Bibliographic reference |
Souto Gonçalves de abreu, Samuel ; Britto, Ruth ; Duhr, Claude ; Gardi, Einan ; Matthew, James. From positive geometries to a coaction on hypergeometric functions. In: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2020, no.2 (2020) |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/251138 |