Notes on scattering amplitudes as differential forms

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2018)054MaRDI QIDQ1627295zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Song He, Chi Zhang

Publication date 22 November 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11051

zbMATH Keywords

differential and algebraic geometrymomentum twistor spacescattering amplitudessupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: Inspired by the idea of viewing amplitudes in $calN=4$ SYM as differential forms on momentum twistor space, we introduce differential forms on the space of spinor variables, which combine helicity amplitudes in any four-dimensional gauge theory as a single object. In this note we focus on such differential forms in $calN=4$ SYM, which can also be thought of as "bosonizing" superamplitudes in non-chiral superspace. Remarkably all tree-level amplitudes in $calN=4$ SYM combine to a $dlog$ form in spinor variables, which is given by pushforward of canonical forms of Grassmannian cells, the tree forms can also be obtained using BCFW or inverse-soft construction, and we present all-multiplicity expression for MHV and NMHV forms to illustrate their simplicity. Similarly all-loop planar integrands can be naturally written as $dlog$ forms in the Grassmannian/on-shell-diagram picture, and we expect the same to hold beyond the planar limit. Just as the form in momentum twistor space reveals underlying positive geometry of the amplituhedron, the form in terms of spinor variables strongly suggests an "amplituhedron in momentum space". We initiate the study of its geometry by connecting it to the moduli space of Witten's twistor-string theory, which provides a pushforward formula for tree forms in $calN=4$ SYM.

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• Scattering forms, worldsheet forms and amplitudes from subspaces
• The momentum amplituhedron
• Positive amplitudes in the amplituhedron
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• Towards the amplituhedron volume

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