Generalized permutohedra in the kinematic space

Publication date 15 April 2018

Abstract: In this note, we study the permutohedral geometry of the poles of a certain differential form introduced in recent work of Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He and Yan. There it was observed that the poles of the form determine a family of polyhedra which have the same face lattice as that of the permutohedron. We realize that family explicitly, proving that it in fact fills out the configuration space of a particularly well-behaved family of generalized permutohedra, the zonotopal generalized permutohedra, that are obtained as the Minkowski sums of line segments parallel to the root directions

e_{i} - e_{j}

. Finally we interpret Mizera's formula for the biadjoint scalar amplitude

m (m a t h b b I_{n}, m a t h b b I_{n})

, restricted to a certain dimension

n - 2

subspace of the kinematic space, as a sum over the boundary components of the standard root cone, which is the conical hull of the roots

e_{1} - e_{2}, l d o t s, e_{n - 2} - e_{n - 1}

.

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