The amplituhedron crossing and winding numbers (Q6074537)

\textit{N. Arkani-Hamed} and \textit{J. Trnka} [J. High Energy Phys. 2014, No. 10, Paper No. 030, 33 p. (2014; Zbl 1468.81075)] introduced the amplituhedron as the image of the totally nonnegative Grassmannian inside an ambient Grassmannian by a linear map to provide a geometric perspective in studying scattering amplitudes in physics. To understand the amplituhedron in a topological setting, \textit{N. Arkani-Hamed} et al. [J. High Energy Phys. 2018, No. 1, Paper No. 16, 41 p. (2018; Zbl 1384.81130)] associated three topological numbers to each of the ambient Grassmannian: the crossing number, the winding number, and the number of sign flips. Then, they put out a conjecture that a point of the ambient Grassmannian is in the amplituhedron if and only if it satisfies certain boundary inequalities and one of the three numbers has a definite value. Responding to the conjecture, the sign flip triangulation has been studied and significant progresses have been made while no systematic study of the crossing and winding number can be found. The authors in this paper present some results on the association with the crossing and winding number. Specifically, they introduce a new set of equations on twistor coordinates to show that a point inside the amplituhedron has a definite winding or crossing number. This result completes one direction of the conjecture as it is well-known that a point in the amplituhedron satisfies the boundary conditions.