Symbol Alphabets from Tensor Diagrams

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2021)079MaRDI QIDQ6369286arXivFDO

Authors Lecheng Ren, Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich

Publication date 2 June 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2021)079

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

arXiv classification

hep-thmath.CO

Abstract: We propose to use tensor diagrams and the Fomin-Pylyavskyy conjectures to explore the connection between symbol alphabets of $n$-particle amplitudes in planar $mathcalN=4$ Yang-Mills theory and certain polytopes associated to the Grassmannian G(4, $n$). We show how to assign a web (a planar tensor diagram) to each facet of these polytopes. Webs with no inner loops are associated to cluster variables (rational symbol letters). For webs with a single inner loop we propose and explicitly evaluate an associated web series that contains information about algebraic symbol letters. In this manner we reproduce the results of previous analyses of $nle8$, and find that the polytope $mathcal{C}^{d}agger(4,9)$ encodes all rational letters, and all square roots of the algebraic letters, of known nine-particle amplitudes.

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