Landau Singularities of the 7-Point Ziggurat II
Abstract
We solve the Landau equations to find the singularities of nine three-loop 7-point graphs that arise as relaxations of the graph studied in arXiv:2211.16425. Along the way we establish that Y- equivalence fails for certain branches of solutions to the Landau equations. We find two graphs with singularities outside the heptagon symbol alphabet; in particular they are not cluster variables of Gr(4,7). We compare maximal residues of scalar graphs exhibiting these singularities to those in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory in order to probe their cancellation from its amplitudes.
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