Calabi-Yau meets Gravity: A Calabi-Yau three-fold at fifth post-Minkowskian order

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Hauptverfasser: Frellesvig, Hjalte, Morales, Roger, Wilhelm, Matthias
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author Frellesvig, Hjalte
Morales, Roger
Wilhelm, Matthias
author_facet Frellesvig, Hjalte
Morales, Roger
Wilhelm, Matthias
contents We study geometries occurring in Feynman integrals that contribute to the scattering of black holes in the post-Minkowskian expansion. These geometries become relevant to gravitational-wave production during the inspiralling phase of binary black hole mergers through the classical conservative potential. At fourth post-Minkowskian order, a K3 surface is known to occur in a three-loop integral, leading to elliptic integrals in the result. In this letter, we identify a Calabi-Yau three-fold in a four-loop integral, contributing at fifth post-Minkowskian order. The presence of this Calabi-Yau geometry indicates that completely new functions occur in the full analytical results at this order.
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spellingShingle Calabi-Yau meets Gravity: A Calabi-Yau three-fold at fifth post-Minkowskian order
Frellesvig, Hjalte
Morales, Roger
Wilhelm, Matthias
High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We study geometries occurring in Feynman integrals that contribute to the scattering of black holes in the post-Minkowskian expansion. These geometries become relevant to gravitational-wave production during the inspiralling phase of binary black hole mergers through the classical conservative potential. At fourth post-Minkowskian order, a K3 surface is known to occur in a three-loop integral, leading to elliptic integrals in the result. In this letter, we identify a Calabi-Yau three-fold in a four-loop integral, contributing at fifth post-Minkowskian order. The presence of this Calabi-Yau geometry indicates that completely new functions occur in the full analytical results at this order.
title Calabi-Yau meets Gravity: A Calabi-Yau three-fold at fifth post-Minkowskian order
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11371