Singularities of eight- and nine-particle amplitudes from cluster algebras and tropical geometry

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2021)007zbMATH Open1476.81118arXiv2106.01392OpenAlexW3171830449MaRDI QIDQ825616FDOQ825616

Authors: Niklas Henke, Georgios Papathanasiou 

Publication date: 17 December 2021

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

Abstract: We further exploit the relation between tropical Grassmannians and $operatornameGr(4,n)$ cluster algebras in order to make and refine predictions for the singularities of scattering amplitudes in $mathcalN=4$ planar super Yang-Mills theory at higher multiplicity $nge8$. As a mathematical foundation that provides access to square-root symbol letters in principle for any $n$, we analyse infinite mutation sequences in cluster algebras with general coefficients. First specialising our analysis to the eight-particle amplitude, and comparing it with a recent, closely related approach based on scattering diagrams, we find that the only additional letters the latter provides are the two square roots associated to the four-mass box. In combination with a tropical rule for selecting a finite subset of variables of the infinite $operatornameGr(4,9)$ cluster algebra, we then apply our results to obtain a collection of $3,078$ rational and $2,349$ square-root letters expected to appear in the nine-particle amplitude. In particular these contain the alphabet found in an explicit 2-loop NMHV symbol calculation at this multiplicity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01392

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zbMATH Keywords

\(1/N\) expansionextended supersymmetryscattering amplitudessupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Applications of tropical geometry (14T90)

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