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In this paper we study effective recursion formulae for computing intersection numbers of mixed $\psi$ and $\kappa$ classes on moduli spaces of curves. By using the celebrated Witten-Kontsevich theorem, we generalize Mulase-Safnuk form of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-28 Kefeng Liu , Hao Xu

We provide a new efficient diagrammatic tool, in the context of the scattering equations, for computation of covariant $D$-dimensional tree-level $n$-point amplitudes with pairs of spinning massive particles using compact exponential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Taro V. Brown , Humberto Gomez

Perturbative scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory have many unexpected properties, such as holomorphy of the maximally helicity violating amplitudes. To interpret these results, we Fourier transform the scattering amplitudes from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Edward Witten

Eikonal exponentiation in QFT describes the emergence of classical physics at long distances in terms of a non-trivial resummation of infinitely many diagrams. Long ago, 't Hooft proposed a beautiful correspondence between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Piotr Tourkine

A method for the nonperturbative calculation of scattering amplitudes and cross sections is discussed in the context of light-cone quantization. The Lanczos-based recursion method of Haydock is suggested for the computation of matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. R. Hiller

This work investigates the scattering coefficients for inverse medium scattering problems. It shows some fundamental properties of the coefficients such as symmetry and tensorial properties. The relationship between the scattering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Habib Ammari , Yat Tin Chow , Jun Zou

The scattering theory of the integrable statistical models can be generalized to the case of systems with extended lines of defect. This is done by adding the reflection and transmission amplitudes for the interactions with the line of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Delfino , G. Mussardo , P. Simonetti

We study scattering equations of hyperplane arrangements from the perspective of combinatorial commutative algebra and numerical algebraic geometry. We formulate the problem as linear equations on a reciprocal linear space and develop a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Barbara Betti , Viktoriia Borovik , Simon Telen

This paper develops a scattering theory for the asymmetric transport observed at interfaces separating two-dimensional topological insulators. Starting from the spectral decomposition of an unperturbed interface Hamiltonian, we present a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Binglu Chen , Guillaume Bal

Complex quantum systems consisting of large numbers of strongly coupled states exhibit characteristic level repulsion, leading to a non-Poisson spacing distribution which can be described by Random Matrix Theory. Scattering resonances…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Krzysztof Jachymski , Paul S. Julienne

We show a direct matching between individual Feynman diagrams and integration measures in the scattering equation formalism of Cachazo, He and Yuan. The connection is most easily explained in terms of triangular graphs associated with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Christian Baadsgaard , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Poul H. Damgaard

In this article, we study the weak and strong Lefschetz of higher dimensional quotients and dimension 1 almost complete intersections. We then apply the obtained results to the study of the Jacobian algebra of hyperplane arrangements.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Simone Marchesi , Elisa Palezzato , Michele Torielli

Quantum graphs can be extended to scattering systems when they are connected by leads to infinity. It is shown that for certain extensions, the scattering matrices of isospectral graphs are conjugate to each other and their poles…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Ram Band , Adam Sawicki , Uzy Smilansky

Equations of hypertree divisors on the Grothendieck-Knudsen moduli space of stable rational curves, introduced by Castravet and Tevelev, appear as numerators of scattering amplitude forms for n massless particles in N=4 Yang-Mills theory in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Jenia Tevelev

We investigate coherent multiple scattering effects in the random quantum kicked rotor model. By changing the starting time of the Floquet period, two new classes of models can be introduced that exhibit similar interference structures. For…

The physical properties induced by a quenched surface magnetic field in the Ising model are investigated by means of boundary quantum field theory in replica space. Exact boundary scattering amplitudes are proposed and used to study the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-09-27 A. De Martino , M. Moriconi , G. Mussardo

The calculation of scattering amplitudes at higher orders in perturbation theory has reached a high degree of maturity. However, their usage to produce physical predictions within Monte Carlo programs is often precluded by the slow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-24 Víctor Bresó , Gudrun Heinrich , Vitaly Magerya , Anton Olsson

As a step toward satisfactory understanding of the quantum dynamics of Dirichlet \break (D-) particles, the amplitude for the basic process describing the scattering of two quantized D-particles is computed in bosonic string theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoichi Kazama

Tree-level scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory satisfy a recursion relation due to Berends and Giele which yields e.g. the famous Parke-Taylor formula for MHV amplitudes. We show that the origin of this recursion relation becomes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-22 Tommaso Macrelli , Christian Saemann , Martin Wolf

The scattering of a fermion in the background of a smooth step potential is considered with a general mixing of vector and scalar Lorentz structures with the scalar coupling stronger than or equal to the vector coupling. Charge-conjugation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 W. M. Castilho , A. S. de Castro