Generalized permutohedra in the kinematic space
Abstract
In this note, we study the permutohedral geometry of the poles of a certain differential form introduced in recent work of Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He and Yan. There it was observed that the poles of the form determine a family of polyhedra which have the same face lattice as that of the permutohedron. We realize that family explicitly, proving that it in fact fills out the configuration space of a particularly well-behaved family of generalized permutohedra, the zonotopal generalized permutohedra, that are obtained as the Minkowski sums of line segments parallel to the root directions . Finally we interpret Mizera's formula for the biadjoint scalar amplitude , restricted to a certain dimension subspace of the kinematic space, as a sum over the boundary components of the standard root cone, which is the conical hull of the roots .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1804.05460,
title = {Generalized permutohedra in the kinematic space},
author = {Nick Early},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.05460},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
23 pages, 7 figures