Complete Computation of All Three-Loop Five-Point Massless Planar Integrals

Dmitry Chicherin1, Yu Wu2, Zihao Wu3,4,5

  • 1CNRS, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, LAPTh, B.P. 110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France.

Physical Review Letters
|September 25, 2026
PubMed

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