The Hepp-bound faithfulness conjecture for primitive phi-four graphs

Let GG be a graph that is p-logarithmic in d=4d=4 dimensions and whose vertices all have degree at most 44; call such a graph a ϕ4\phi^4 graph. Let P(G)\mathcal{P}(G) denote its period and H(G)\mathcal{H}(G) its Hepp bound. Hepp-bound faithfulness conjecture. Two ϕ4\phi^4 graphs have equal periods if and only if they have equal Hepp bounds. The conjecture is supported by computations for primitive ϕ4\phi^4 graphs through 1111 loops, but remains open; it is motivated by analogous conjectures for the c2c_2 invariant and the permanent.

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Primary source

Erik Panzer, “Hepp's bound for Feynman graphs and matroids”, arXiv:1908.09820 (2022).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1704.06350.

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