Duals of Feynman integrals. Part I. Differential equations

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We elucidate the vector space (twisted relative cohomology) that is Poincaré dual to the vector space of Feynman integrals (twisted cohomology) in general spacetime dimension. The pairing between these spaces — an algebraic invariant called the intersection number — extracts integral coefficients for a minimal basis, bypassing the generation of integration-by-parts identities. Dual forms turn out to be much simpler than their Feynman counterparts: they are supported on maximal cuts of various sub-topologies (boundaries). Thus, they provide a systematic approach to generalized unitarity, the reconstruction of amplitudes from on-shell data. In this paper, we introduce the idea of dual forms and study their mathematical structures. As an application, we derive compact differential equations satisfied by arbitrary one-loop integrals in non-integer spacetime dimension. A second paper of this series will detail intersection pairings and their use to extract integral coefficients.

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Caron-Huot, S., & Pokraka, A. (2021). Duals of Feynman integrals. Part I. Differential equations. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(12). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2021)045

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