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We develop a systematic procedure for computing maximal unitarity cuts of multiloop Feynman integrals in arbitrary dimension. Our approach is based on the Baikov representation in which the structure of the cuts is particularly simple. We examine several planar and nonplanar integral topologies and demonstrate that the maximal cut inherits IBPs and dimension shift identities satisfied by the uncut integral. Furthermore, for the examples we calculated, we find that the maximal cut functions from different allowed regions, form the Wronskian matrix of the differential equations on the maximal cut.
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Bosma, J., Sogaard, M. & Zhang, Y. Maximal cuts in arbitrary dimension. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 51 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2017)051
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