Analyticity Bootstrap of Feynman Integrals

Abstract

We propose an analyticity bootstrap method to determine the reduction of Feynman integrals (FIs). The key observation is that, at any kinematic point, a dimensionally regularized FI possesses a Taylor expansion region (analytic region), and the finiteness of the Taylor region strongly constrains the integral reduction coefficients, which are rational functions of the kinematic variables. By writing the most general ansatz compatible with the singularity structure and then fixing the remaining parameters with only a few integration-by-parts (IBP) samples or asymptotic expansions, one can obtain the full reduction. We develop the method systematically in both single-variable and multi-variable cases, with many explicit examples. Interestingly, the differential equations (DEs) of the master integrals determine all these analyticity constraints and, conversely, the constraints facilitate the construction of the DEs. In particular, we show that the DEs in the auxiliary mass flow method can be constructed at significantly reduced cost and can even be fully determined without using IBP.