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Lips: p-adic and singular phase space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-05-24 v1

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 (C\mathbb{C}), but now also over finite fields (Fp\mathbb{F}_p) and p-adic numbers (Qp\mathbb{Q}_p). 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.

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@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)

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