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The algebraic structure of cut Feynman integrals and the diagrammatic coaction

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We study the algebraic and analytic structure of Feynman integrals by proposing an operation that maps an integral into pairs of integrals obtained from a master integrand and a corresponding master contour. This operation is a coaction. It reduces to the known coaction on multiple polylogarithms, but applies more generally, e.g. to hypergeometric functions. The coaction also applies to generic one-loop Feynman integrals with any configuration of internal and external masses, and in dimensional regularization. In this case, we demonstrate that it can be given a diagrammatic representation purely in terms of operations on graphs, namely contractions and cuts of edges. The coaction gives direct access to (iterated) discontinuities of Feynman integrals and facilitates a straightforward derivation of the differential equations they admit. In particular, the differential equations for any one-loop integral are determined by the diagrammatic coaction using limited information about their maximal, next-to-maximal, and next-to-next-to-maximal cuts.

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Towards Motivic Coactions at Genus One from Zeta Generators

hep-th · 2025-08-04 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Proposes motivic coaction formulae for genus-one iterated integrals over holomorphic Eisenstein series using zeta generators, verifies expected coaction properties, and deduces f-alphabet decompositions of multiple modular values.

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