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

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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.



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