Hyperbolic geometry and amplituhedra in 1+2 dimensions

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2018)167zbMATH Open1396.81208arXiv1803.05809MaRDI QIDQ1783891FDOQ1783891

Authors: Giulio Salvatori, Sergio L. Cacciatori 

Publication date: 21 September 2018

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

Abstract: Recently, the existence of an Amplituhedron for tree level amplitudes in the bi-adjoint scalar field theory has been proved by Arkhani-Hamed et al. We argue that hyperbolic geometry constitutes a natural framework to address the study of positive geometries in moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces, and thus to try to extend this achievement beyond tree level. In this paper we begin an exploration of these ideas starting from the simplest example of hyperbolic geometry, the hyperbolic plane. The hyperboloid model naturally guides us to re-discover the moduli space Associahedron, and a new version of its kinematical avatar. As a by-product we obtain a solution to the scattering equations which can be interpreted as a special case of the two well known solutions in terms of spinor-helicity formalism. The construction is done in $1+2$ dimensions and this makes harder to understand how to extract the amplitude from the dlog of the space time Associahedron. Nevertheless, we continue the investigation accommodating a loop momentum in the picture. By doing this we are led to another polytope called Halohedron, which was already known to mathematicians. We argue that the Halohedron fulfils many criteria that make it plausible to be understood as a 1-loop Amplituhedron for the cubic theory. Furthermore, the hyperboloid model again allows to understand that a kinematical version of the Halohedron exists and is related to the one living in moduli space by a simple generalisation of the tree level map.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05809

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zbMATH Keywords

differential and algebraic geometryscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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