A geometrical angle on Feynman integrals
- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 39 (9) , 4299-4334
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.532513
Abstract
A direct link between a one-loop N-point Feynman diagram and a geometrical representation based on the N-dimensional simplex is established by relating the Feynman parametric representations to the integrals over contents of (N-1)-dimensional simplices in non-Euclidean geometry of constant curvature. In particular, the four-point function in four dimensions is proportional to the volume of a three-dimensional spherical (or hyperbolic) tetrahedron which can be calculated by splitting into birectangular ones. It is also shown that the known formula of reduction of the N-point function in (N-1) dimensions corresponds to splitting the related N-dimensional simplex into N rectangular ones.Keywords
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