Lips: p-adic and singular phase space
Abstract
I present new features of the open-source Python package lips, which leverages the newly developed pyadic and syngular libraries. These developments enable the generation and manipulation of massless phase-space configurations beyond real kinematics, defined in terms of four-momenta or Weyl spinors, not only over complex numbers (), but now also over finite fields () and p-adic numbers (). The package also offers tools to evaluate arbitrary spinor-helicity expressions in any of these fields. Furthermore, using the algebraic-geometry submodule, which utilizes Singular [1] through the Python interface syngular, one can define and manipulate ideals in spinor variables, enabling the identification of irreducible surfaces where scattering amplitudes have well-defined zeros and poles. As an example application, I demonstrate how to infer valid partial-fraction decompositions from numerical evaluations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.14075,
title = {Lips: p-adic and singular phase space},
author = {Giuseppe De Laurentis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14075},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 tables, Proceedings of the 21th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT 2022)