Advanced Summation Techniques and their Applications in Quantum Field
Theory
Mission :
Perturbative higher order calculations in Quantum Field Theories
rely on advanced analytic summation and integration techniques in
certain classes of sums and transcendental functions. Various probelms
lead to difference equations in Π-Σ
fields. The collaboration
between Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, DESY, Zeuthen and RISC at
Johannes Kepler University, Linz aims on further development of these
technologies, innovative search for new methods and the creation of efficient
tools based on Computer Algebra.
Beyond the application of these methods, algorithms and tools in Quantum
Field Theory, these methods may be of interest in other fields, such as
number theory (multiple zeta values, irrationality proofs, theory of
periods, new relations between sums), general summation and analytic
integration methods.
A cooperation contract between both institutions was signed
in February 2007. This contract has been prolonged for five years in February 2012.
Both sites also host nodes of the EU Network:
LHCPhenoNet.
Team :
DESY : J. Blümlein,
S. Moch, T. Riemann; I. Bierenbaum (U. Hamburg), A. De Freitas,
A. Hasselhuhn, S. Klein (RWTH Aachen),
F. Wißbrock RISC : P. Paule, M. Kauers, C. Schneider; J. Ablinger (also DESY), C. Raab, M. Round, F. Stan (Paris)