Kinematic Varieties for Massless Particles
Algebraic Geometry
2025-05-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We study algebraic varieties that encode the kinematic data for massless particles in -dimensional spacetime subject to momentum conservation. Their coordinates are spinor brackets, which we derive from the Clifford algebra associated to the Lorentz group. This was proposed for in the recent physics literature. Our kinematic varieties are given by polynomial constraints on tensors with both symmetric and skew symmetric slices.
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@article{arxiv.2408.16711,
title = {Kinematic Varieties for Massless Particles},
author = {Smita Rajan and Svala Sverrisdóttir and Bernd Sturmfels},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16711},
year = {2025}
}
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19 pages