Stokes polytopes: the positive geometry for ^4 interactions

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2019)067MaRDI QIDQ2273419zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Pinaki Banerjee, Alok Laddha, Prashanth Raman

Publication date 23 September 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05904

zbMATH Keywords

differential and algebraic geometryscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

Abstract: In a remarkable recent work [arXiv : 1711.09102] by Arkani-Hamed et al, the amplituhedron program was extended to the realm of non-supersymmetric scattering amplitudes. In particular it was shown that for tree-level planar diagrams in massless $ph{i}^3$ theory (and its close cousin, bi-adjoint $ph{i}^3$ theory) a polytope known as the associahedron sits inside the kinematic space and is the amplituhedron for the theory. Precisely as in the case of amplituhedron, it was shown that scattering amplitude is nothing but residue of the canonical form associated to the associahedron. Combinatorial and geometric properties of associahedron naturally encode properties like locality and unitarity of (tree level) scattering amplitudes. In this paper we attempt to extend this program to planar amplitudes in massless $ph{i}^4$ theory. We show that tree-level planar amplitudes in this theory can be obtained from geometry of objects known as the Stokes polytope which sits naturally inside the kinematic space. As in the case of associahedron we show that residues of the canonical form on these Stokes polytopes can be used to compute scattering amplitudes for quartic interactions. However unlike associahedron, Stokes polytope of a given dimension is not unique and as we show, one must sum over all of them to obtain the complete scattering amplitude. Not all Stokes polytopes contribute equally and we argue that the corresponding weights depend on purely combinatorial properties of the Stokes polytopes. As in the case of $ph{i}^3$ theory, we show how factorization of Stokes polytope implies unitarity and locality of the amplitudes.

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