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Emergent unitarity, all-loop cuts and integrations from the ABJM amplituhedron

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-08-16 v2

Abstract

We elaborate on aspects of a new positive geometry proposed recently, which was conjectured to be the four-point amplituhedron for ABJM theory. We study generalized unitarity cuts from the geometry, and in particular we prove that (1) the four-point integrand satisfies perturbative unitarity (or optical theorem) to all loops, which follows directly from the geometry, and (2) vanishing cuts involving odd-point amplitudes follow from the ``bipartite" nature of the associated ``negative geometries", which justifies their appearance in ABJM theory. We also take a first step in integrating the forms of these negative geometries and obtain an infrared-finite quantity up to two loops, from which we extract the cusp anomalous dimension at leading order.

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@article{arxiv.2303.03035,
  title  = {Emergent unitarity, all-loop cuts and integrations from the ABJM amplituhedron},
  author = {Song He and Chia-Kai Kuo and Zhenjie Li and Yao-Qi Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03035},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

21 pages, many figures,minor changes