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Generalized permutohedra in the kinematic space

Combinatorics 2024-05-22 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

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 eieje_i-e_j. Finally we interpret Mizera's formula for the biadjoint scalar amplitude m(In,In)m(\mathbb{I}_n,\mathbb{I}_n), restricted to a certain dimension n2n-2 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 e1e2,,en2en1e_1-e_2,\ldots, e_{n-2}-e_{n-1}.

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@article{arxiv.1804.05460,
  title  = {Generalized permutohedra in the kinematic space},
  author = {Nick Early},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.05460},
  year   = {2024}
}

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23 pages, 7 figures

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