Combinatorics of the geometry of Wilson loop diagrams. I: Equivalence classes via matroids and polytopes

DOI10.4153/S0008414X21000134MaRDI QIDQ5095803zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Susama Agarwala, Karen Yeats, Siân Fryer

Publication date 10 August 2022

Published in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10919

zbMATH Keywords

\(N = 4\) SYM theory\(N^k MHV\) diagramspositroidsWilson loop diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: Wilson loop diagrams are an important tool in studying scattering amplitudes of SYM $N=4$ theory and are known by previous work to be associated to positroids. We characterize the conditions under which two Wilson loop diagrams give the same positroid, prove that an important subclass of subdiagrams (exact subdiagrams) correspond to uniform matroids, and enumerate the number of different Wilson loop diagrams that correspond to each positroid cell. We also give a correspondence between those positroids which can arise from Wilson loop diagrams and directions in associahedra.

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