Iterated Integrals in Quantum Field Theory
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These notes are based on a series of lectures given to a mixed audience of mathematics and physics students at Villa de Leyva in Colombia. The first half is an introduction to iterated integrals and polylogarithms, with emphasis on the case P\{0, 1,∞}. The second half gives an overview of some recent results connecting them with Feynman diagrams in perturbative quantum field theory.
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