Reduction of a Class of Three-Loop Vacuum Diagrams to Tetrahedron Topologies

Abstract

We obtain finite parts (as well as $\epsilon$-pole parts) of massive three-loop vacuum diagrams with three-point and/or four-point interaction vertices by reducing them to tetrahedron diagrams with both massive and massless lines, whose finite parts were given analytically in a recent paper by Broadhurst. In the procedure of reduction, the method of integration-by-parts recurrence relations is employed. We use our result to compute the $\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$ effective potential of the massive ${\varphi }^4$ theory.

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