5 'BGap' is the computer implementation of the method to
6 compute alpha' expansions of disk integrals described
7 in the paper 1609.07078:
10 Berends-Giele recursion for the alpha' expansion of disk integrals
12 by Carlos R. Mafra and Oliver Schlotterer.
14 BGap.frm is the main file where you can compute the alpha'
15 expansion of disk integrals up to order alpha'^7 to any
16 multiplicity (depending on your patience and disk space).
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19 How to use the program
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22 You need to have FORM installed, see http://www.nikhef.nl/~form/
24 Open the main file BGap.frm in a text editor and modify the
25 multiparticle labels P and Q in the integral
29 and select the alpha' order (=weight) you want its expansion
30 in the call to BGexpand(weight). Then execute 'tform' on
31 the file (note that 'form' is not tested):
33 [mafra@mac:BGap]$ tform -q -w4 BGap.frm
38 + Is(1,2,3,4,5,8)*Is(3,4)*Is(3,4,5)
39 + Is(1,2,3,4,5,8)*Is(3,4,5)*Is(4,5)
42 0.73 sec + 0.15 sec: 0.89 sec out of 0.81 sec
44 Beware of the notation:
46 Is(1,2,...,n) = 1/s(1,2,...,n)
48 where s(1,2,...,n) means the Mandelstam variable. No attempt
49 to reduce the Mandelstams to a basis is done, this is better
50 left to a later processing where you can implement your favorite
51 basis (note that the recursion itself already implements most of
52 the kinematic basis as one particle label is always absent, by
55 The content of the file BGap.frm that generated
56 the above output is written down in the footnote [1]
57 below -- that is the same file as the the one in
60 Currently the maximum weight implemented is w=7. You can add
61 more if you wish, but you'll need to derive the recursion at
62 the next order from scratch.
68 The files in the auxiliary/ directory contain some programs that
69 were used to derive the recursion up to weight=7. Studying them
70 should enable you to go higher in alpha' (you will need to read
71 the paper 1609.07078 in this case).
73 If you have suggestions on how to make the code faster without
74 complicating it too much, please send us an email.
80 [1] The output comes from this file:
82 [mafra@mac:BGap]$ cat BGap.frm
88 L [ex1] = Zint(1,3,4,5,8,2,6,7,[p],1,...,8);
91 bracket zeta2,zeta3,zeta5,zeta7;
97 "compute the expansion of the integral Z(13458267|12345678)
98 up to order alpha'^2, please".
100 Note that we didn't test the program above Npts=12 at certain
101 alpha' order because the expressions become large. But in
102 principle there should be no issue other than the running time.
104 PS: The computation of the regular integrals in the files
105 all[0-9]*ptJregs.frm require selecting the order of the
106 Koba-Nielsen expansion in the call
108 #call KobaNielsen('Npts',6)
110 inside the procedure IntegrateOrder(). In this case (from the file
111 all4ptJregs.frm) we are expanding the Koba-Nielsen factor up to alpha^6,
112 which means that the BG expansion will be of order:
114 (alpha)^{Npts-3}*alpha^6 = alpha^7
116 For the allowed values of the weight according to Npts that are
117 currently implemented, see Table 1 in the paper 1609.07078.