Planar unbounded Tate-defect conjecture for primitive-divergent phi-four graphs

Let GG be a primitive-divergent graph in ϕ4\phi^4, with NGN_G edges, and let w(G)w(G) and h(G)\mathfrak{h}(G) denote the weight and Hodge quantities associated with the relative de Rham class of its Feynman integrand. Define the Tate defect by

td(G)=2h(G)w(G).td(G)=2\mathfrak{h}(G)-w(G).

Unbounded Tate-defect conjecture. There exists a sequence of primitive-divergent graphs GiG_i in ϕ4\phi^4 such that

td(Gi).td(G_i)\longrightarrow\infty.

Furthermore, the GiG_i can be taken to be planar. The claim concerns the expected existence of arbitrarily large non-Tate defects; no resolution is given in the source.

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Primary source

Francis C. S. Brown, “On the periods of some Feynman integrals”, arXiv:0910.0114 (2010).

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