"""Plot the reduced one-loop magnetic integral; Python 3.14, NumPy 2.3.5, matplotlib 3.10.7. Composite Gauss-Legendre quadrature resolves the narrowing endpoint region. This illustrates a projected QED integral, not the full vertex calculation. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np from numpy.polynomial.legendre import leggauss def integrand(x, r): return 2 * x * (1 - x) ** 2 / ((1 - x) ** 2 + x * r ** 2) def integral(r, order=48): nodes, weights = leggauss(order) edges = np.unique(np.r_[0., 1 - np.logspace(0, -9, 37), 1.]) mid = (edges[:-1] + edges[1:]) / 2 half = np.diff(edges) / 2 x = mid[:, None] + half[:, None] * nodes return float(np.sum(half[:, None] * weights * integrand(x, r))) def main(): plt.rcParams.update({'font.size': 12, 'axes.spines.top': False, 'axes.spines.right': False}) fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(11, 5.6), facecolor='white', layout='constrained') x = np.linspace(0, 1, 1400) colors = ['#176591', '#b55b1b', '#7a4b91'] for r, color in zip([1, .1, .01], colors): axes[0].plot(x, integrand(x, r), label=f'r = {r:g}', lw=2, color=color) axes[0].plot(x, 2 * x, '--', color='#28323c', lw=1.5, label=r'$2x$: zero-regulator limit') axes[0].set(xlabel='Feynman parameter x', ylabel=r'$f_r(x)$', title='Endpoint suppression narrows', xlim=(0, 1), ylim=(0, 2.08)) axes[0].legend(loc='upper left', fontsize=10) ratios = np.logspace(-5, 1, 180) values = np.array([integral(r) for r in ratios]) axes[1].semilogx(ratios, values, color='#176591', lw=2.5) axes[1].axhline(1, ls='--', color='#28323c', lw=1.5) for r, color in zip([1, .1, .01], colors): y = integral(r) axes[1].plot(r, y, 'o', color=color) axes[1].annotate(f'{y:.4f}', (r, y), xytext=(7, -17 if r < 1 else 8), textcoords='offset points', color=color, fontsize=10) axes[1].set(xlabel=r'Auxiliary mass ratio $r=\lambda/m$', ylabel=r'$I(r)=F_2^{(1)}(0;\lambda)/(\alpha/2\pi)$', title='The integral tends to one', ylim=(0, 1.08)) axes[1].text(1.5e-5, .12, 'Smaller regulator ←', color='#28323c') fig.suptitle(r'$I(r)=\int_0^1\frac{2x(1-x)^2}{(1-x)^2+xr^2}\,dx$', fontsize=20) fig.supxlabel('Auxiliary regulator values; no experimental points or physical photon-mass claim', fontsize=11) fig.savefig(Path(__file__).stem + '.png', dpi=120, facecolor='white', transparent=False) plt.close(fig) if __name__ == '__main__': main()