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The Disordered Universe 2025: Analytic Properties of Amplitudes and Correlators

Mattia Capuano·Chandramouli Chowdhury·Chantelle Esper·Alessandro Palazio·Jonah Stalknecht·Yong Sheng Yap·Andrew J. McLeod·Paolo Benincasa·Guilherme Leite Pimentel
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These lectures provide an introduction to modern techniques for studying the analytic properties of loop-level scattering amplitudes and correlation functions in perturbative quantum field theory. We begin by developing the ideas behind Landau analysis, which identifies the location and nature of kinematic singularities in Feynman integrals (the universal building blocks that contribute to perturbative amplitudes and correlators). We then show how fundamental principles such as unitarity and causality constrain the analytic structure of Feynman integrals, and develop methods for working out some of these constraints in practice. Finally, we connect these observations to the properties of iterated integrals and their symbol calculus, to show how bootstrap methods can be used to determine the functional form of Feynman integrals from just knowledge of their analytic structure. These notes are based on a series of lectures held during the La Ricotta Summer School "The Disordered Universe 2025" from 21~July to 1~August~2025.

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Mattia Capuano, Chandramouli Chowdhury, Chantelle Esper, Alessandro Palazio, Jonah Stalknecht, Yong Sheng Yap, Andrew J. McLeod, Paolo Benincasa, Guilherme Leite Pimentel. 2026-10-26. The Disordered Universe 2025: Analytic Properties of Amplitudes and Correlators. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36271

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