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Constraining the weights of Stokes Polytopes using BCFW recursions for Phi^4

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-04-13 v2

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 N=4 SYM\mathcal{N}=4~\text{SYM} theory and has been extended to the scalar ϕ3\phi^3 and ϕ4\phi^4 theories at tree-level. In this paper, we use the generalized BCFW recursion relations for massless planar ϕ4\phi^4 theory to constrain the weights of a class of geometric objects called Stokes polytopes, which manifest in the geometric formulation of ϕ4\phi^4 amplitudes. We see that the weights of the Stokes polytopes are intricately tied to the boundary terms in ϕ4\phi^4 theories. We compute the weights of N=1,2N=1,2, and 33 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 nn-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

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