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The property of maximal transcendentality: Calculation of Feynman integrals

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We consider examples of two-loop two- and three-point Feynman integrals for which the calculation results have the property of maximal transcendentality.

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This research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant No. 16-02-00790_a).

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Kotikov, A.V. The property of maximal transcendentality: Calculation of Feynman integrals. Theor Math Phys 190, 391–401 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040577917030084

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