Emergent unitarity from the amplituhedron

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)069MaRDI QIDQ2185289zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

Publication date 4 June 2020

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/1906.10700

zbMATH Keywords

scattering amplitudessupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: We present a proof of perturbative unitarity for $mathcalN=4$ SYM, following from the geometry of the amplituhedron. This proof is valid for amplitudes of arbitrary multiplicity $n$, loop order $L$ and MHV degree $k$.

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