Reductions of GKZ Systems and Applications to Cosmological Correlators

Fuente: arXiv
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Grimm, Thomas W., Hoefnagels, Arno
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866910887602814976
author Grimm, Thomas W.
Hoefnagels, Arno
author_facet Grimm, Thomas W.
Hoefnagels, Arno
contents A powerful approach to computing Feynman integrals or cosmological correlators is to consider them as solution to systems of differential equations. Often these can be chosen to be Gelfand-Kapranov-Zelevinsky (GKZ) systems. However, their naive construction introduces a significant amount of unnecessary complexity. In this paper we present an algorithm which allows for reducing these GKZ systems to smaller subsystems if a parameter associated to the GKZ systems is resonant. These simpler subsystems can then be solved separately resulting in solutions for the full system. The algorithm makes it possible to check when reductions happen and allows for finding the associated simpler solutions. While originating in the mathematical theory of D-modules analyzed via exact sequences of Euler-Koszul homologies, the algorithm can be used without knowledge of this framework. We motivate the need for such reduction techniques by considering cosmological correlators on an FRW space-time and solve the tree-level single-exchange correlator in this way. It turns out that this integral exemplifies an interesting relation between locality and the reduction of the differential equations.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2409_13815
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Reductions of GKZ Systems and Applications to Cosmological Correlators
Grimm, Thomas W.
Hoefnagels, Arno
High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Algebraic Geometry
A powerful approach to computing Feynman integrals or cosmological correlators is to consider them as solution to systems of differential equations. Often these can be chosen to be Gelfand-Kapranov-Zelevinsky (GKZ) systems. However, their naive construction introduces a significant amount of unnecessary complexity. In this paper we present an algorithm which allows for reducing these GKZ systems to smaller subsystems if a parameter associated to the GKZ systems is resonant. These simpler subsystems can then be solved separately resulting in solutions for the full system. The algorithm makes it possible to check when reductions happen and allows for finding the associated simpler solutions. While originating in the mathematical theory of D-modules analyzed via exact sequences of Euler-Koszul homologies, the algorithm can be used without knowledge of this framework. We motivate the need for such reduction techniques by considering cosmological correlators on an FRW space-time and solve the tree-level single-exchange correlator in this way. It turns out that this integral exemplifies an interesting relation between locality and the reduction of the differential equations.
title Reductions of GKZ Systems and Applications to Cosmological Correlators
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Algebraic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13815