A note on letters of Yangian invariants

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Abstract: Motivated by reformulating Yangian invariants in planar calN=4 SYM directly as dlog forms on momentum-twistor space, we propose a purely algebraic problem of determining the arguments of the dlog's, which we call "letters", for any Yangian invariant. These are functions of momentum twistors Z's, given by the positive coordinates alpha's of parametrizations of the matrix C(alpha), evaluated on the support of polynomial equations C(alpha)cdotZ=0. We provide evidence that the letters of Yangian invariants are related to the cluster algebra of Grassmannian G(4,n), which is relevant for the symbol alphabet of n-point scattering amplitudes. For n=6,7, the collection of letters for all Yangian invariants contains the cluster calA coordinates of G(4,n). We determine algebraic letters of Yangian invariant associated with any "four-mass" box, which for n=8 reproduce the 18 multiplicative-independent, algebraic symbol letters discovered recently for two-loop amplitudes.






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