Schnetz's cosmic Galois closure conjecture for massless phi-four theory

Let GG range over primitive graphs in massless ϕ4\phi^4 theory, and let IGmI_G^{\mathfrak{m}} be their actual motivic amplitudes, meaning amplitudes with trivial numerators. Let C0,0\mathcal{C}_{0,0} denote the cosmic Galois group, and let VV be the space generated by these amplitudes:

V=span{IGm:G is primitive in massless ϕ4 theory}.V=\operatorname{span}\{I_G^{\mathfrak{m}}:G\text{ is primitive in massless }\phi^4\text{ theory}\}.

Schnetz's cosmic Galois closure conjecture. The space VV is itself closed under the action of the cosmic Galois group C0,0\mathcal{C}_{0,0}.

This asserts that cosmic Galois conjugates of primitive massless ϕ4\phi^4 amplitudes remain linear combinations of actual amplitudes of primitive massless ϕ4\phi^4 graphs, rather than requiring generalized amplitudes with arbitrary numerators. The claim is presented as a conjecture and is not resolved in the source.

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Francis Brown, “Periods and Feynman amplitudes”, arXiv:1512.09265 (2015).

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