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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.
Published as Magic Relations and Critical Varieties of Feynman Integrals arXiv:2605.29789
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