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The Momentum Amplituhedron

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-09-04 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this paper we define a new object, the momentum amplituhedron, which is the long sought-after positive geometry for tree-level scattering amplitudes in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory in spinor helicity space. Inspired by the construction of the ordinary amplituhedron, we introduce bosonized spinor helicity variables to represent our external kinematical data, and restrict them to a particular positive region. The momentum amplituhedron Mn,k\mathcal{M}_{n,k} is then the image of the positive Grassmannian via a map determined by such kinematics. The scattering amplitudes are extracted from the canonical form with logarithmic singularities on the boundaries of this geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1905.04216,
  title  = {The Momentum Amplituhedron},
  author = {David Damgaard and Livia Ferro and Tomasz Lukowski and Matteo Parisi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.04216},
  year   = {2019}
}

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23 pages