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Complete Function Space for Planar Two-Loop Six-Particle Scattering Amplitudes

Johannes Henn1,*, Antonela Matijašić1,2, Julian Miczajka1, Tiziano Peraro3, Yingxuan Xu4, and Yang Zhang5,6,7

  • *Contact author: henn@mpp.mpg.de
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 031601 – Published 15 July, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/zhzd-tj9p

Abstract

We derive the full system of canonical differential equations for all planar two-loop massless six-particle master integrals and determine analytically the boundary conditions. This fully specifies the solutions, which may be written as Chen iterated integrals. We argue that this is sufficient information for evaluating any scattering amplitude in four dimensions up to the finite part. We support this claim by reducing, for the most complicated integral topologies, integrals with typical Yang-Mills numerators. We use the analytic solutions to the differential equations, together with dihedral symmetry, to provide the full solution space relevant for two-loop six-particle computations. This includes the relevant function alphabet, as well as the independent set of iterated integrals up to weight four. We also provide the answer for all master integrals in terms of iterated integrals that can be readily evaluated numerically. As a proof of concept, we provide a numerical implementation that evaluates the integrals in part of the Euclidean region and validate this against numerical evaluation of the Feynman integrals. Our result removes the bottleneck of the Feynman integral evaluation, paving the way for future analytic evaluations of six-particle scattering amplitudes.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 031601– Published 15 July, 2025
  • Received 21 January 2025
  • Accepted 18 June 2025
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