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Anthony Massidda

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arXiv2026

Exponential Periods for Integrals in Physics

The study of Feynman integrals through the lens of intersection theory offers a unifying framework for their analysis, capturing both the linear and quadratic relations that arise among integrals. In doing so, it provides a powerful method for systematically reducing them to the so called master integrals, a necessary strategy for multiloop contributions, whose huge number make direct calculation unfeasible. The Twisted de Rham cohomology offers a powerful tool for describing integrals with multivalued integrands, arising in dimensional regularization. However, it fails whenever the underlying geometry shows richer structures, as singularities and intricate monodromies. In this thesis we propose a systematic approach to identify and construct the appropriate homology and cohomology that allows to interpret Feynman integrals in parameter representation as exponential periods. This reformulation, together with the analytic continuation of the dimensional regularizator, provides a perfect framework to properly analyze the wall crossing structure and to correctly take into account Stokes phenomena for a sharp counting of the number of Master integrals. This framework allows to embed within the same formalism not only perturbative integrals, coming both from quantum field theories and string theory, but also wide class of physically relevant integrals, from Fourier calculus to statistical mechanics partition functions, from quantum mechanics expectation values to conformal field theory correlators.

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arXiv2025

Wall crossing structure from quantum phenomena to Feynman Integrals

A growing body of evidence suggests that the complexity of Feynman integrals is best understood through geometry. Recent mathematical developments [Kontsevich and Soibelman, arXiv:2402.07343] have illuminated the role of exponential integrals as periods of twisted de Rham cocycles over Betti cycles, providing a structured approach to tackle this problem in many situations. In this paper, we apply these concepts to show how families of physically relevant integrals, ranging from exponentials to logarithmic multivalued functions, can be recast as twisted periods of differential forms over homology cycles. In the case of holomorphic exponents, we provide explicit decompositions as thimble expansions and reveal a geometric wall-crossing structure behind the analytic continuation in parameters. We then show that the generalization to multivalued functions provides the right framework to describe Feynman integrals in the Baikov representation, where the multivaluedness is governed by the logarithm of the Baikov polynomial. In this context, the thimble decomposition aligns with the decomposition into Master Integrals. We highlight how the wall-crossing structure allows for a sharp count of independent Master Integrals (or periods), circumventing complications arising from Stokes phenomena. Additionally, we study the large-parameter expansions of these integrals, whose coefficients correspond to periods of standard (co-)homology associated with families of algebraic varieties, and which reveal the dominant basis elements in different sectors of the wall crossing structure. This unifies perturbative expansions and geometric representation theory under a single cohomological framework.

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arXiv2024

A modern approach to String Amplitudes and Intersection Theory

In this thesis, we study the properties of String theory amplitudes within the framework of Intersection Theory (IT) for twisted (co)homology, which, as recently proposed, offered a novel approach to analyze relations between scattering amplitudes, in string theory as well as in QFT. As only recently pointed out, thanks to IT, the analytic properties of scattering amplitudes can be related to the topological properties of the manifolds characterizing their integral representation. Tree-level string amplitudes, as well as Feynman integrals, obey both linear and quadratic relations governed by intersection numbers, which act as scalar products between vector spaces. We show how (co)homology with values in a local system allows to interpret closed strings tree amplitudes as intersection numbers between twisted cocycles, and open strings tree amplitudes as parings between a twisted cocycle and a twisted cycle. We present different algorithms to evaluate univariate and multivariate intersection numbers between both log and non-log twisted cocycles. We explore a diagrammatic method for the computation of intersection number between twisted cycles of the moduli space of the n-punctured Riemann sphere. We use IT to rederive Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) relations, naturally emerging as a twisted version of Riemann period relations. We compute intersection matrix between 2D twisted cycles to explicitly obtain the KLT decomposition of five closed tachyons tree amplitudes into partial five open tachyons tree amplitudes. We explicitly determine the intersection matrix between 2D Parke-Taylor (PT) forms. We use a recursive algorithm for generic n cocycle intersection numbers to project tachyon amplitudes integrand into a PT basis, and we apply it to the scattering of four and five tachyons. The methods discussed in the thesis can be broadly applied to problems involving Aomoto-Gelfand integrals.

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