Non-perturbative geometries for planar N = 4 SYM amplitudes

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2021)065MaRDI QIDQ2028265zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas Lam, Marcus Spradlin, Nima Arkani-Hamed

Publication date 31 May 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08222

zbMATH Keywords

scattering amplitudessupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

Abstract: There is a remarkable well-known connection between the G$(4,n)$ cluster algebra and $n$-particle amplitudes in $mathcalN=4$ SYM theory. For $nge8$ two long-standing open questions have been to find a mathematically natural way to identify a finite list of amplitude symbol letters from among the infinitely many cluster variables, and to find an explanation for certain algebraic functions, such as the square roots of four-mass-box type, that are expected to appear in symbols but are not cluster variables. In this letter we use the notion of "stringy canonical forms" to construct polytopal realizations of certain compactifications of (the positive part of) the configuration space Conf${}_n(mathbb{P}^{k-1})congmG(k,n)/T$ that are manifestly finite for all $k$ and $n$. Some facets of these polytopes are naturally associated to cluster variables, while others are naturally associated to algebraic functions constructed from Lusztig's canonical basis. For $(k,n)=(4,8)$ the latter include precisely the expected square roots, revealing them to be related to certain "overpositive" functions of the kinematical invariants.

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