Wednesday, February 6, 2013

1302.1023 (Rijun Huang et al.)

On Genera of Curves from High-loop Generalized Unitarity Cuts    [PDF]

Rijun Huang, Yang Zhang
Generalized unitarity cut of a Feynman diagram generates an algebraic system of polynomial equations. At high-loop levels, these equations may define a complex curve or a (hyper-)surface with complicated topology. We study the curve cases, i.e., a 4-dimensional L-loop diagram with (4L-1) cuts. The topology of a complex curve is classified by its genus. Hence in this paper, we use computational algebraic geometry to calculate the genera of curves from two and three-loop unitarity cuts. The global structure of degenerate on-shell equations under some specific kinematic configurations is also sketched. The genus information can also be used to judge if a unitary cut solution could be rationally parameterized.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1023

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