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Bhabha Scattering and a special pencil of K3 surfaces

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We study a pencil of K3 surfaces that appeared in the $2$-loop diagrams in Bhabha scattering. By analysing in detail the Picard lattice of the general and special members of the pencil, we identify the pencil with the celebrated Ap\'ery--Fermi pencil, that was related to Ap\'ery's proof of the irrationality of $\zeta(3)$ through the work of F. Beukers, C. Peters and J. Stienstra. The same pencil appears miraculously in different and seemingly unrelated physical contexts.

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Special Fano geometry from Feynman integrals

hep-th · 2024-12-28 · conditional · novelty 5.0

Special Fano varieties, which include Calabi-Yau spaces as the Q=1 case, arise from the Symanzik polynomials of several families of Feynman integrals.

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  • Special Fano geometry from Feynman integrals hep-th · 2024-12-28 · conditional · none · ref 16 · internal anchor

    Special Fano varieties, which include Calabi-Yau spaces as the Q=1 case, arise from the Symanzik polynomials of several families of Feynman integrals.