Analytic continuations and numerical evaluation of the Appell F1, F3, Lauricella FD(3) and Lauricella-Saran FS(3) and their application to Feynman integrals

📅 2024-03-04
🏛️ Computer Physics Communications
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This work addresses the challenge of stable, high-precision evaluation of four classes of multivariate hypergeometric functions—Appell $F_1$, $F_3$, Lauricella $F_D^{(3)}$, and Saran $F_S^{(3)}$—over the entire complex parameter domain. Methodologically, it introduces a unified analytic continuation framework: first, systematically constructing cross-region continuation paths; second, integrating high-accuracy numerical ODE integration, Wronskian-based boundary matching, Padé approximants, and rigorous branch-cut handling, all implemented using both arbitrary-precision floating-point and interval arithmetic. The key contribution is overcoming classical convergence-domain limitations, achieving relative accuracy of $sim 10^{-15}$ across physically relevant parameter regions. The method has been successfully applied to obtain full-phase-space analytic expressions and numerical validation for multiple two-loop three- and four-point Feynman integrals in QED and QCD, thereby significantly enhancing both computational efficiency and reliability of higher-order Standard Model corrections.

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Souvik Bera
Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, Karnataka, India; Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, 37673, Korea
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Tanay Pathak
Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, Karnataka, India; Center for Gravitational Physics and Quantum Information, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan