Group structure of the integration-by-part identities and its application to the reduction of multiloop integrals

Abstract

The excessiveness of integration-by-part (IBP) identities is discussed. The Lie-algebraic structure of the IBP identities is used to reduce the number of the IBP equations to be considered. It is shown that Lorentz-invariance (LI) identities do not bring any information additional to that contained in the IBP identities, and therefore, can be discarded.