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Sharpening The Leading Singularity

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We show how studying leading singularities of Feynman diagrams, when all momenta are complex, gives a simple way of writing multi-loop and multi-particle scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. The simplicity of the method is equivalent to that of the quadruple cut technique introduced in hep-th/0412103 at one-loop. The new technique only involves the computation of residues and the solution of linear equations. In our technique both parity even and parity odd pieces of a coefficient are computed simultaneously and it is only at the end that a separation can be made if desired. We explain the procedure via examples. The main example, which we compute in detail, is the five-particle two-loop amplitude first given in hep-th/0604074. Another feature of our method is that the helicity structure of the amplitude only enters in the inhomogeneous part of the linear equations. In other words, the homogeneous part is universal. We illustrate this feature by presenting the linear equations which determine a large class of terms for MHV and next-to-MHV six-particle two-loop amplitudes.

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The spectrum of Feynman-integral geometries at two loops

hep-th · 2025-12-15 · unverdicted · novelty 8.0

Two-loop Feynman integrals involve Riemann spheres, elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves of genus 2 and 3, K3 surfaces, and a rationalizable Del Pezzo surface of degree 2.

Bootstrapping the Four-Point NMHV Stress-Tensor Form Factor

hep-th · 2026-05-27 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Determines the unique two- and three-loop symbols for the four-point NMHV form factor from an 88-letter alphabet, providing first multi-loop non-MHV data and supporting alphabet universality.

Five legs @ three loops: N=4 sYM amplitude near mass-shell

hep-th · 2026-05-16 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Three-loop five-leg amplitude in planar N=4 sYM near mass shell is computed via 6D unitarity cuts and dimensional reduction, confirming IR exponentiation governed by octagon anomalous dimension with each of three kinematic structures having its own function of 't Hooft coupling.

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  • The spectrum of Feynman-integral geometries at two loops hep-th · 2025-12-15 · unverdicted · none · ref 74 · internal anchor

    Two-loop Feynman integrals involve Riemann spheres, elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves of genus 2 and 3, K3 surfaces, and a rationalizable Del Pezzo surface of degree 2.

  • Analytic results for heavy-quark contributions to charged-current DIS at NNLO hep-ph · 2026-06-19 · conditional · none · ref 75 · internal anchor

    Analytic NNLO partonic coefficient functions for F2, FL, F3 in charged-current DIS with exact charm mass, expressed via Goncharov polylogarithms and Chen iterated integrals.

  • Bootstrapping the Four-Point NMHV Stress-Tensor Form Factor hep-th · 2026-05-27 · unverdicted · none · ref 59 · internal anchor

    Determines the unique two- and three-loop symbols for the four-point NMHV form factor from an 88-letter alphabet, providing first multi-loop non-MHV data and supporting alphabet universality.

  • Five legs @ three loops: N=4 sYM amplitude near mass-shell hep-th · 2026-05-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 18 · internal anchor

    Three-loop five-leg amplitude in planar N=4 sYM near mass shell is computed via 6D unitarity cuts and dimensional reduction, confirming IR exponentiation governed by octagon anomalous dimension with each of three kinematic structures having its own function of 't Hooft coupling.

  • Integrand Analysis, Leading Singularities and Canonical Bases beyond Polylogarithms hep-th · 2026-04-28 · unverdicted · none · ref 14

    Feynman integrals selected for unit leading singularities in complex geometries satisfy epsilon-factorized differential equations with new transcendental functions corresponding to periods and differential forms in the Gauss-Manin connection.

  • Solution of Canonical Differential Equations for Integrals on Arbitrary Geometries hep-ph · 2026-06-29 · unverdicted · none · ref 20 · internal anchor

    A strategy is introduced to solve canonical differential equations for Feynman master integrals on arbitrary geometries by reducing numerical evaluation to an enlarged system of rational differential equations.