The amplituhedron crossing and winding numbers

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2023.104961MaRDI QIDQ6074537zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 19 September 2023

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03435

zbMATH Keywords

amplituhedronpositive Grassmannians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: In cite{arkani2018unwinding}, Arkani-Hamed, Thomas and Trnka formulated two conjectural descriptions of the tree amplituhedron $ampli$ depending on the parity of $m$. When $m$ is even, the description involves the winding number and when $m$ is odd the description involves the crossing number. In this paper, we prove that if a point is in the open tree amplituhedron then it satisfies the crossing or winding description.

Review text

\textit{N. Arkani-Hamed} and \textit{J. Trnka} [J. High Energy Phys. 2014, No. 10, Paper No. 030, 33 p. (2014; Zbl 1468.81075)] introduced the amplituhedron as the image of the totally nonnegative Grassmannian inside an ambient Grassmannian by a linear map to provide a geometric perspective in studying scattering amplitudes in physics. To understand the amplituhedron in a topological setting, \textit{N. Arkani-Hamed} et al. [J. High Energy Phys. 2018, No. 1, Paper No. 16, 41 p. (2018; Zbl 1384.81130)] associated three topological numbers to each of the ambient Grassmannian: the crossing number, the winding number, and the number of sign flips. Then, they put out a conjecture that a point of the ambient Grassmannian is in the amplituhedron if and only if it satisfies certain boundary inequalities and one of the three numbers has a definite value. Responding to the conjecture, the sign flip triangulation has been studied and significant progresses have been made while no systematic study of the crossing and winding number can be found. The authors in this paper present some results on the association with the crossing and winding number. Specifically, they introduce a new set of equations on twistor coordinates to show that a point inside the amplituhedron has a definite winding or crossing number. This result completes one direction of the conjecture as it is well-known that a point in the amplituhedron satisfies the boundary conditions.

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