Picard-Fuchs operators for Feynman integrals : algorithm and motives

par Prof. Pierre Vanhove (CEA)

vendredi 27 janv. 2023, 15:00 → 16:30 Europe/Paris

201 (L'IHP201)

This talk aims to present two complementary approaches for understanding the Picard--Fuchs operators associated to eynman integrals. 1/ A first approach uses an algorithmic implementation of the  Griffiths-Dwork method adapted to singular hypersurfaces. Supplemented by a new factorisation algorithm we obtain a minimal Picard--Fuchs differential operator acting on a given Feynman integral.

2/ A second approach is a study of the geometry and Hodge theory of the hypersurfaces attached to 

Feynman integrals for generic physical parameters. 

In the case of planar two-loop Feynman graphs, we will explain that the Hodge structure attached to planar  two-loop integral decomposes into a mixed Tate piece and variation of Hodge structure from families of hyperelliptic, elliptic curves or

rational curves depending on the space-time dimension. This approach leads to a construction of a construction of the Picard--Fuchs operator that is checked to be compatible with the one obtained from the algorithm. For the non-planar two-loop tardigrade graph we argue that the motive 

is of a K3 surface of Picard number 11.

 

Based on work done with Pierre Lairez, Charles Doran and Andrew Harder