Likelihood Equations and Scattering Amplitudes

DOI10.2140/ASTAT.2021.12.167MaRDI QIDQ6355645arXivFDO

Authors Bernd Sturmfels, Simon Telen

Publication date 9 December 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/ASTAT.2021.12.167

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic statistics (62R01) Numerical algebraic geometry (65H14)

arXiv classification

hep-thmath.AGmath.STstat.TH

Abstract: We relate scattering amplitudes in particle physics to maximum likelihood estimation for discrete models in algebraic statistics. The scattering potential plays the role of the log-likelihood function, and its critical points are solutions to rational function equations. We study the ML degree of low-rank tensor models in statistics, and we revisit physical theories proposed by Arkani-Hamed, Cachazo and their collaborators. Recent advances in numerical algebraic geometry are employed to compute and certify critical points. We also discuss positive models and how to compute their string amplitudes.

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