20–23 May 2025
Palazzone della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Cortona
Europe/Rome timezone

CALICO: parametric annihilators for loop integrals & special functions

22 May 2025, 10:10
15m
Palazzone della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Cortona

Palazzone della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Cortona

Speaker

Gaia Fontana (University of Zürich)

Description

We elaborate on the method of parametric annihilators for deriving relations among integrals. Annihilators are differential operators that annihilate multi-valued integration kernels appearing in suitable integral representations of special functions and Feynman integrals. We describe a method for computing parametric annihilators based on efficient linear solvers and show how to use them to derive relations between a wide class of special functions. These include hypergeometric functions, Feynman integrals relevant to high-energy physics and duals of Feynman integrals. We finally present the public Mathematica package CALICO for computing parametric annihilators and its usage in several examples.

Primary author

Gaia Fontana (University of Zürich)

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