← Back to High Energy Physics — Phenomenology hep-ph
Why do some quantum calculations mysteriously vanish, and how to find them?
Giulio Crisanti, Hjalte Frellesvig, Andrzej Pokraka, Sid Smith
May 28, 2026
Feynman integrals, essential for predicting particle collisions, sometimes contain "magic relations"—identities where entire groups of integrals cancel out, breaking standard computational tools. This work reveals that magic relations always accompany hidden geometric structures called higher-dimensional critical varieties, providing a concrete test to detect them and count how many independent integrals remain.
Read the original paper →