17–18 Dec 2025
Centre for Particle Theory
Europe/London timezone

Straightening Out the IBP Equations

18 Dec 2025, 13:30
30m
Ph30 (Centre for Particle Theory )

Ph30

Centre for Particle Theory

Speaker

Junhan Liu (University of Cambridge)

Description

In this talk, I present a general and powerful strategy for solving integration-by-parts (IBP) identities, which take the form of multivariable linear homogeneous relations among Feynman integrals. Our diagonalisation approach transforms the IBP system into effectively single-variable recurrence relations. This diagonal structure exposes the analytic behaviour of the reduction and provides a direct route to closed-form solutions, making it especially valuable when propagator powers are treated as abstract variables, such as in the Mellin representation, or when very high powers appear. As a by-product of this framework, I will also briefly discuss a more specialised variant, the triangularisation method, which adapts the diagonal strategy to QCD multi-loop reductions for improved computational efficiency. Together, these developments offer both conceptual clarity and significant computational gains for modern multi-loop calculations.

Authors

Prof. Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge) Junhan Liu (University of Cambridge)

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