From momentum amplituhedron boundaries to amplitude singularities and back

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2020)201zbMATH Open1451.81358arXiv2003.13704OpenAlexW3098121006MaRDI QIDQ2215430FDOQ2215430

Authors: Livia Ferro, Robert Moerman, T. Łukowski 

Publication date: 11 December 2020

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

Abstract: The momentum amplituhedron is a positive geometry encoding tree-level scattering amplitudes in $mathcalN=4$ super Yang-Mills directly in spinor-helicity space. In this paper we classify all boundaries of the momentum amplituhedron $mathcal{M}_{n,k}$ and explain how these boundaries are related to the expected factorization channels, and soft and collinear limits of tree amplitudes. Conversely, all physical singularities of tree amplitudes are encoded in this boundary stratification. Finally, we find that the momentum amplituhedron $mathcal{M}_{n,k}$ has Euler characteristic equal to one, which provides a first step towards proving that it is homeomorphic to a ball.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13704

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zbMATH Keywords

scattering amplitudessupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) 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)

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Uses Software

• amplituhedronBoundaries

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