Decompositions of amplituhedra (Q826433): Difference between revisions

The paper deals with the anatomy of a certain subset of \textit{amplituhedra} which are special images of Grassmannians. The authors give a new explicit description of those objects (so-called BCFW cells) and develop some tools. In the introduction, a conjecture about triangulation of the amplituhedron is stated which is going to be understood deeper within the article. Section 2 gives the background on the totally nonnegative Grassmannian and combinatorial objects. Furthermore, some important information on plabic graphs and hook diagrams is given. In Section 3 the background on sign variation, where in section 4 the \(m=2\) amplituhedron is highlighted as warmup for the \(m=4\) amplituhedron. There the recursion in the style of BCFW and the hook diagrams are given. Section 5 deals with binary trees and BCFW plabic graphs. In the following sections the prerequisites given before are applied for the BCFW cells for several cases where the triangulation is picked up in section 12. The appendix gives information on the Dyck paths and BCFW domino bases.