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Parity duality for the amplituhedron

Combinatorics 2020-12-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

The (tree) amplituhedron An,k,m(Z)\mathcal A_{n,k,m}(Z) is a certain subset of the Grassmannian introduced by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka in 2013 in order to study scattering amplitudes in N=4N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Confirming a conjecture of the first author, we show that when mm is even, a collection of affine permutations yields a triangulation of An,k,m(Z)\mathcal A_{n,k,m}(Z) for any ZGr>0(k+m,n)Z\in \operatorname{Gr}_{>0}(k+m,n) if and only if the collection of their inverses yields a triangulation of An,nmk,m(Z)\mathcal A_{n,n-m-k,m}(Z) for any ZGr>0(nk,n)Z\in\operatorname{Gr}_{>0}(n-k,n). We prove this duality using the twist map of Marsh and Scott. We also show that this map preserves the canonical differential forms associated with the corresponding positroid cells, and hence obtain a parity duality for amplituhedron differential forms.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1805.00600,
  title  = {Parity duality for the amplituhedron},
  author = {Pavel Galashin and Thomas Lam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.00600},
  year   = {2020}
}

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52 pages, 3 figures

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