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Symbol Alphabets from Plabic Graphs II: Rational Letters

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-09-22 v2

Abstract

Symbol alphabets of n-particle amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory are known to contain certain cluster variables of Gr(4,n) as well as certain algebraic functions of cluster variables. The first paper arXiv:2007.00646 in this series focused on n=8 algebraic letters. In this paper we show that it is possible to obtain all rational symbol letters (in fact all cluster variables) by solving matrix equations of the form C Z = 0 if one allows C to be an arbitrary cluster parameterization of the top cell of Gr_+(n-4,n).

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@article{arxiv.2012.15812,
  title  = {Symbol Alphabets from Plabic Graphs II: Rational Letters},
  author = {Jorge Mago and Anders Schreiber and Marcus Spradlin and Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant and Anastasia Volovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15812},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor typos corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-23T21:39:37.899Z