Sep 9 – 13, 2019
Europe/Zurich timezone

## A new formulation of the loop-tree duality at higher loops

Sep 12, 2019, 2:30 PM
25m
Chambre du Trésorier

### Speaker

Dr Zoltán Szőr (Mainz University)

### Description

Relating loop integrals to tree level objects goes back several decades to Feynman. In the past ten years the loop-tree duality theorem was introduced, which expresses $l$-loop integrals in terms of phase space integrals of sum of trees obtained from cutting $l$ internal propagators of the loop graph. In addition, the uncut propagators gain a modified $i \delta$-prescription, named dual propagators.

In my talk I present a new formulation of the loop-tree duality theorem for higher loop diagrams valid both for massless and massive cases. In this new framework one can go beyond loop-graphs and calculate the integrand of loop-amplitudes as a weighted sum of tree graphs, which form a tree-like object. These objects can be computed efficiently via recurrence relations.

### Primary authors

Dr Zoltán Szőr (Mainz University) Stefan Weinzierl (Universität Mainz) Mr Juan-Pablo Vesga (Mainz University) Mr Robert Runkel (Mainz University)