The unequal-mass three-loop banana integral
A bstract We compute the three-loop banana integral with four unequal masses in dimensional regularisation. This integral is associated to a family of K3 surfaces, thus representing an example for Feynman integrals with geometries beyond elliptic curves. We evaluate the integral by deriving an ε -factorised differential equation, for which we rely on the algorithm presented in a recent publication [1]. Equipping the space of differential forms in Baikov representation by a set of filtrations inspired by Hodge theory, we first obtain a differential equation with entries as Laurent polynomials in ε . Via a sequence of basis rotations we then remove any non- ε -factorising terms. This procedure is algorithmic and at no point relies on prior knowledge of the underlying geometry.
Authors
- Sebastian Pögel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4323-9743)
- Xing Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-1047)
- Toni Teschke
- Stefan Weinzierl
Institutions
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Paul Scherrer Institute (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2026-01-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01(2026)021
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Polynomial and algebraic computation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 90.33
Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Chinese University of Hong Kong