Constraining the weights of Stokes Polytopes using BCFW recursions for Phi^4
Abstract
The relationship between certain geometric objects called polytopes and scattering amplitudes has revealed deep structures in QFTs. It has been developed in great depth at the tree- and loop-level amplitudes in theory and has been extended to the scalar and theories at tree-level. In this paper, we use the generalized BCFW recursion relations for massless planar theory to constrain the weights of a class of geometric objects called Stokes polytopes, which manifest in the geometric formulation of amplitudes. We see that the weights of the Stokes polytopes are intricately tied to the boundary terms in theories. We compute the weights of , and dimensional Stokes polytopes corresponding to six-, eight- and ten-point amplitudes respectively. We generalize our results to higher-point amplitudes and show that the generalized BCFW recursions uniquely fix the weights for an -point amplitude.
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@article{arxiv.2005.12886,
title = {Constraining the weights of Stokes Polytopes using BCFW recursions for Phi^4},
author = {Ishan Srivastava},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12886},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Several typos corrected, rewritten section 4