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1-loop Amplitudes from the Halohedron

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-29 v2

Abstract

We recently proposed the Halohedron to be the 1-loop Amplituhedron for planar ϕ3\phi^3 theory. Here we prove this claim by showing how it is possible to extract the integrand for the partial amplitude mn1(1,,n1,,n)m^1_n(1,\dots,n|1,\dots,n) from the canonical form of an Halohedron which lives in an abstract space. This space is just a step away from ordinary kinematical space at 1-loop, because it is composed by abstract variables associated to propagators of 1-loop Feynman diagrams. Such variables, however, are unbound from momentum conservation relations that would give problems such as double poles. As an application of our construction, we exploit a well known recursion formula for the canonical form of a polytope in order to produce an expression for the 1-loop integrand which would not be evident starting from Feynman diagrams.

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@article{arxiv.1806.01842,
  title  = {1-loop Amplitudes from the Halohedron},
  author = {Giulio Salvatori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.01842},
  year   = {2020}
}
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