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Simplex-like Structures of Maximally Supersymmetric Scattering Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-06-23 v3

Abstract

We elaborate the two-fold simplex-like structures of tree amplitudes in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills (N=4 SYM), through its connection to a mathematical structure known as the positive Grassmannian. Exploiting the reduced Grassmannian geometry and the matrix form of on-shell recursion relation in terms of super momentum twistors, we manifest that tree amplitudes can be remarkably refined via the essential building blocks named as fully-spanning cells. For a fixed number of negative helicities, an amplitude can be entirely captured by finite, compact information of the relevant fully-spanning cells up to an arbitrarily large number of external particles.

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@article{arxiv.1712.10000,
  title  = {Simplex-like Structures of Maximally Supersymmetric Scattering Amplitudes},
  author = {Junjie Rao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.10000},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures. Introductory overview of 1609.08627. Figures improved for v3

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