TY - EJOUR AU - Falcioni, Giulio AU - Herzog, Franz AU - Moch, Sven-Olaf AU - Pelloni, Andrea AU - Vogt, Andreas TI - Four-loop splitting functions in QCD – the gluon-gluon case – IS - arXiv:2410.08089 M1 - PUBDB-2025-01052 M1 - arXiv:2410.08089 M1 - ZU-TH 47/24 M1 - DESY-24-144 M1 - LTH 1384 PY - 2024 N1 - the DFGthrough the Research Unit FOR 2926, project number 40824754, and DFG grant MO 1801/4-2,and the ERC Advanced Grant 101095857. AB - We have computed the even-N moments N≤20 of the gluon-gluon splitting function Pgg at the fourth order of perturbative QCD via the renormalization of off-shell operator matrix elements. Our results, derived analytically for a general compact simple gauge group, agree with all results obtained for this function so far, in particular with the lowest five moments obtained via structure functions in deep-inelastic scattering. Using our new moments and all available endpoint constraints, we construct improved approximations for the four-loop Pgg(x) that should be sufficient for a wide range of collider-physics applications. The N3LO contributions to the scale derivative of the gluon distribution, resulting from these and the corresponding quark-to-gluon splitting functions, amount to 1 LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)25 DO - DOI:10.3204/PUBDB-2025-01052 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/625204 ER -