The Number of Master Integrals is Finite |
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Authors: | Alexander V. Smirnov Alexey V. Petukhov |
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Affiliation: | 1.Scientific Research Computing Center,Moscow State University,Moscow,Russia;2.Department of Higher Algebra of Moscow State University,Moscow,Russia;3.Jacobs University,Bremen,Germany |
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Abstract: | For a fixed Feynman graph one can consider Feynman integrals with all possible powers of propagators and try to reduce them, by linear relations, to a finite subset of integrals, the so-called master integrals. Up to now, there are numerous examples of reduction procedures resulting in a finite number of master integrals for various families of Feynman integrals. However, up to now it was just an empirical fact that the reduction procedure results in a finite number of irreducible integrals. It this paper we prove that the number of master integrals is always finite. |
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