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Gauss hypergeometric function: reduction, ε-expansion for integer/half-integer parameters and Feynman diagrams

Mikhail Yu. Kalmykov1,2

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The Gauss hypergeometric functions 2F1 with arbitrary values of parameters are reduced to two functions with fixed values of parameters, which differ from the original ones by integers. It is shown that in the case of integer and/or half-integer values of parameters there are only three types of algebraically independent Gauss hypergeometric functions. The ε-expansion of functions of one of this type (type F in our classification) demands the introduction of new functions related to generalizations of elliptic functions. For the five other types of functions the higher-order ε-expansion up to functions of weight 4 are constructed. The result of the expansion is expressible in terms of Nielsen polylogarithms only. The reductions and ε−expansion of q–loop off-shell propagator diagrams with one massive line and q massless lines and q–loop bubble with two-massive lines and q−1 massless lines are considered.

Keywords

Standard Model

QCD

NLO Computations

 

E-print Number: hep-th/0602028

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PACS

02.30.Sa Functional analysis

02.60.Pn Numerical optimization

11.10.-z Field theory

MSC

33C75 Elliptic integrals as hypergeometric functions

11F37 Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms

81T18 Feynman diagrams

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Computational physics

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 04 (April 2006)

Received 13 February 2006, accepted for publication 13 April 2006

Published 28 April 2006



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