BCFW tilings and cluster adjacency for the amplituhedron
Abstract
In 2005, Britto, Cachazo, Feng and Witten gave a recurrence (now known as the BCFW recurrence) for computing scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang Mills theory. Arkani-Hamed and Trnka subsequently introduced the amplituhedron to give a geometric interpretation of the BCFW recurrence. Arkani-Hamed and Trnka conjectured that each way of iterating the BCFW recurrence gives a "triangulation" or "tiling" of the m=4 amplituhedron. In this article we prove the BCFW tiling conjecture of Arkani-Hamed and Trnka. We also prove the cluster adjacency conjecture for BCFW tiles of the amplituhedron, which says that facets of tiles are cut out by collections of compatible cluster variables for the Grassmannian Gr(4,n). Moreover we show that each BCFW tile is the subset of the Grassmannian where certain cluster variables have particular signs.
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@article{arxiv.2504.01217,
title = {BCFW tilings and cluster adjacency for the amplituhedron},
author = {Chaim Even-Zohar and Tsviqa Lakrec and Matteo Parisi and Melissa Sherman-Bennett and Ran Tessler and Lauren Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.01217},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
This article was published on PNAS (doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408572122) as a research announcement of a full-length paper by the same authors (doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.17727)