Kinematic flow for cosmological loop integrands
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2025
Journal Issue
7
ISSN
1029-8479
Date Issued
2025-07-10
Author(s)
Abstract
Recently, an interesting pattern was found in the differential equations satisfied by the Feynman integrals describing tree-level correlators of conformally coupled scalars in a power-law FRW cosmology [1, 2]. It was proven that simple and universal graphical rules predict the equations for arbitrary graphs as a flow in kinematic space. In this note, we show that the same rules — with one small addition — also determine the differential equations for loop integrands. We explain that both the basis of master integrals and the singularities of the differential equations can be represented by tubings of marked graphs. An important novelty in the case of loops is that some basis functions can vanish, and we present a graphical rule to identify these vanishing functions. Taking this into account, we then demonstrate that the kinematic flow correctly predicts the differential equations for all loop integrands.
Subjects
Cosmological models
de Sitter space
Differential and Algebraic Geometry
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Type
journal article