Mincer is a program, originally devised by Gorishni, Larin, Surguladze and Tkachov (Comput.Phys.Commun.55:381-408,1989), based on algorithms provided in papers by Chetyrkin and Tkachov (Nucl. Phys.B192 (1981) 159.), and Tkachov (Phys. Lett. 100B (1981); Teor. Mat. Fiz. 56 (1983) 350). The original version was written for Schoonschip, but it has been rewitten from scratch for FORM by J. Vermaseren and in that form it has been used for many calculations, a number of which of which include its use as part of the Matad system (M. Steinhauser: Comput.Phys.Commun.134:335-364,2001).
The files are:
| mincer.h | The complete library. |
| mincer2.h | The complete library in a form in which it can be used for calculations to order ep^2 (ep=4-D)/2). |
| testmincer1.frm | A test program to show the use of mincer. |
| testmincer2.frm | Another test program to show the use of mincer. |
It should be noted that the files mincer.h and mincer2.h are best viewed with the stedi editor. The files are rather long (O(1 Mbyte)) and the various routines and tables are all inside folds to make the whole more readable.
Currently there is no manual.