Documentation

On this page you will find a collection of documents that will help you get used to FORM.

For new users, we recommend the tutorial list below. The reference manual is less didactic and puts more emphasis on completeness and preciseness. This document is updated regularly.

For people who would like to understand a bit more about FORM and how to write efficient FORM programs there is a paper about the writing of a program to evaluate chromatic polynomials on rectangular lattices. This project was originally suggested by Denny Fliegner.

Installation

Installation should be fairly straightforward on most systems.

Step 1.

Download the source code or the binaries.

Download

Step 2.

Build and install:

autoreconf -i

./configure
make
make install

Info For detailed instructions, read the INSTALL file.

Tutorial

There is also an extensive tutorial available, written by André Heck:

Tutorial

Reference manual

The reference manual by Jos Vermaseren is available here:

Reference

Courses

• Introductory lectures about FORM -- Nikhef, January 2006
  • First lecture
  • Second lecture
  • Third lecture
  • Fourth lecture
  • Fifth lecture
• Lectures about the use of FORM -- Nikhef, November 2012
  • First lecture
  • Second lecture
  • Third lecture
  • Fourth lecture, code
  • Fifth lecture, code
  • Sixth lecture, code
• Calculations of Particle Reactions -- UAM, Feb./Mar. 2013
  • Linux install manual
  • The introduction. It explains what you need to do to get started
  • Overal factors and some simple phase space
  • Monte Carlo integration, code
  • Some crosssections
  • Kinematics routines and examples
  • A number of FORM programs that were be used
• Introductory lectures about FORM -- Zeuthen, CAPP2011, March 21-25 2011
  • Lecture notes
  • Supplements
• Lectures about the use of FORM -- Granada, February 2013
  • First lecture, code
  • Second lecture, code
  • Third lecture, code
  • Fourth lecture, code
  • Fifth lecture, code
• Introductory lectures about FORM -- Zeuthen, CAPP2013, March 11-15 2013
  • First lecture, code
  • Second lecture, code
  • Third lecture, code
  • Fourth lecture, code

Contribute? If you would like to contribute a course you have given or a link to one, please send an e-mail to one of the authors.

Publications

• The article about the release of version 3.0
• An early paper about ParForm
• Another early paper about ParForm
• Shows new features of version 3.1. In particular it shows how to use the tablebase facility
• About recent developments with ParFORM
• Introduces the external channels and shows how to use them
• About the implementation of the use of multiple threads
• The article about the release of version 4.0

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