Duals of Feynman Integrals, 2: Generalized Unitarity

Abstract

The first paper of this series introduced objects (elements of twisted relative cohomology) that are Poincaré dual to Feynman integrals. We show how to use the pairing between these spaces -- an algebraic invariant called the intersection number -- to express a scattering amplitude over a minimal basis of integrals, bypassing the generation of integration-by-parts identities. The initial information is the integrand on cuts of various topologies, computable as products of on-shell trees, providing a systematic approach to generalized unitarity. We give two algorithms for computing the multi-variate intersection number. As a first example, we compute 4- and 5-point gluon amplitudes in generic spacetime dimension. We also examine the 4-dimensional limit of our formalism and provide prescriptions for extracting rational terms.

arXiv comment51+8 pages, 7 figures, 4 ancillary files; updated to match version published in JHEP

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