We study a rational matroid invariant, obtained as the tropicalization of the Feynman period integral. It equals the volume of the polar of the matroid polytope and we give efficient formulas for its computation. This invariant is proven to respect all known identities of Feynman integrals for graphs. We observe a strong correlation between the tropical and transcendental integrals, which yields a method to approximate unknown Feynman periods.
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<p>Hepp bounds of phi^4 graphs</p>
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DOI: 10.4171/aihpd/126
Keywords: Feynman integrals, tropicalization, Mellin transform, matroid invariants, panning tree polytope, matroid polytope, polytope volume
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author = {Panzer, Erik},
title = {Hepp{\textquoteright}s bound for {Feynman} graphs and matroids},
journal = {Annales de l{\textquoteright}Institut Henri Poincar\'e D},
pages = {31--119},
year = {2023},
volume = {10},
number = {1},
doi = {10.4171/aihpd/126},
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Panzer, Erik. Hepp’s bound for Feynman graphs and matroids. Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré D, Volume 10 (2023) no. 1, pp. 31-119. doi: 10.4171/aihpd/126
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