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Weights, Recursion relations and Projective triangulations for Positive Geometry of scalar theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-10-12 v2

Abstract

The story of positive geometry of massless scalar theories was pioneered in [1] in the context of bi-adjoint ϕ3\phi^3 theories. Further study proposed that the positive geometry for a generic massless scalar theory with polynomial interaction is a class of polytopes called accordiohedra [2]. Tree-level planar scattering amplitudes of the theory can be obtained from a weighted sum of the canonical forms of the accordiohedra. In this paper, using results of the recent work [3], we show that in theories with polynomial interactions all the weights can be determined from the factorization property of the accordiohedron. We also extend the projective recursion relations introduced in [4,5] to these theories. We then give a detailed analysis of how the recursion relations in ϕp\phi^p theories and theories with polynomial interaction correspond to projective triangulations of accordiohedra. Following the very recent development [6] we also extend our analysis to one-loop integrands in the quartic theory.

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@article{arxiv.2007.10974,
  title  = {Weights, Recursion relations and Projective triangulations for Positive Geometry of scalar theories},
  author = {Renjan Rajan John and Ryota Kojima and Sujoy Mahato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10974},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v2 : 33 pages, 13 figures. A new section (section 7) on one-loop integrands in the quartic theory added, a sentence added to the abstract and references added