====== TTP00-26 Three-Loop Leading Top Mass Contributions to the rho Parameter ====== We present analytical results for the leading contributions of the top quark to the electroweak rho parameter at order GF^3 Mt^6 and GF^2 Mt^4 alpha_s. The Higgs boson and the gauge bosons are taken to be massless in this limit. The correction of order GF^3 Mt^6 is found to be sizeable in comparison to the the leading two-loop GF^2 Mt^4 correction, however it is much smaller than the subleading GF^2 Mt^2 MZ^2 correction. |**J.J. van der Bij, K.G. Chetyrkin, M. Faisst, G. Jikia and T. Seidensticker** | |** Phys.Lett. B498 156-162 2001 ** | | {{preprints:2000:ttp00-26.pdf|PDF}} {{preprints:2000:ttp00-26.ps|PostScript}} [[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0011373|arXiv]] | | |