Manifestly Causal Loop-Tree Duality
arXiv:2009.05509
Abstract
Loop-Tree Duality (LTD) is a framework in which the energy components of all loop momenta of a Feynman integral are integrated out using residue theorem, resulting in a sum over tree-like structures. Originally, the LTD expression exhibits cancellations of non-causal thresholds between summands, also known as dual cancellations. As a result, the expression exhibits numerical instabilities in the vicinity of non-causal thresholds and for large loop momenta. In this work we derive a novel, generically applicable, Manifestly Causal LTD (cLTD) representation whose only thresholds are causal thresholds, i.e. it manifestly realizes dual cancellations. Consequently, this result also serves as a general proof for dual cancellations. We show that LTD, cLTD, and the expression stemming from Time Ordered Perturbation Theory (TOPT) are locally equivalent. TOPT and cLTD both feature only causal threshold singularities, however LTD features better scaling with the number of propagators. On top of the new theoretical perspectives offered by our representation, it has the useful property that the ultraviolet (UV) behaviour of the original 4D integrand is maintained for every summand. We show that the resulting LTD integrand expression is completely stable in the UV region which is key for practical applications of LTD to the computation of amplitudes and cross sections. We present explicit examples of the LTD expression for a variety of up to four-loop integrals and show that its increased computational complexity can be efficiently mitigated by optimising its numerical implementation. Finally, we provide computer code that automatically generates the LTD expression for an arbitrary topology.
39 pages
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