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Geometry of in-in correlators

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-01-28 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We introduce a family of polytopes -- in-in zonotopes -- whose boundary structure organizes the contributions to scalar equal-time correlators in flat space computed via the in-in formalism. We provide explicit Minkowski sum and facet descriptions of these polytopes, and show that their boundaries factorize into products of graphical zonotopes and lower-dimensional in-in zonotopes, thereby mimicking the factorization structure of the correlators themselves. Evaluating their canonical forms at the origin -- equivalently, calculating the volume of the dual polytope -- reproduces the correlator. Finally, in a simple example, we show that the wavefunction decomposition of the correlator corresponds to a subdivision of the dual polytope.

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@article{arxiv.2601.18903,
  title  = {Geometry of in-in correlators},
  author = {Ross Glew},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.18903},
  year   = {2026}
}
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