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In this article we review, for a mathematical audience, the computation of (tree-level) scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory in detail, in order to bridge the gap in understanding of the subject between mathematicians and physicists.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-25 Shounak De , Dmitrii Pavlov , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We describe a new set of public, self-contained, and versatile computational tools for the investigation, manipulation, and evaluation of tree-level amplitudes in pure (super)Yang-Mills and (super)Gravity, $\phi^p$-scalar field theory, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily

Amplituhedra $\mathcal{A}_{n,k}^{(m)}$ are geometric objects of great interest in modern mathematics and physics: for mathematicians they are combinatorially rich generalizations of polygons and polytopes, based on the notion of positivity;…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-02 Tomasz Lukowski

We present a new, explicit formula for all tree-level amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. The formula is written as a certain contour integral of the connected prescription of Witten's twistor string, expressed in link variables. A very…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Jaroslav Trnka , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

A Grasstope is the image of the totally nonnegative Grassmannian $\text{Gr}_{\geq 0}(k,n)$ under a linear map $\text{Gr}(k,n)\dashrightarrow \text{Gr}(k,k+m)$. This is a generalization of the amplituhedron, a geometric object of great…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Yelena Mandelshtam , Dmitrii Pavlov , Elizabeth Pratt

Dual superconformal invariance has recently emerged as a hidden symmetry of planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. This symmetry can be made manifest by expressing amplitudes in terms of `momentum twistors', as opposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Lionel Mason , David Skinner

In this paper, we introduce the momentum space amplituhedron for tree-level scattering amplitudes of ABJM theory. We demonstrate that the scattering amplitude can be identified as the canonical form on the space given by the product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Yu-tin Huang , Ryota Kojima , Congkao Wen , Shun-Qing Zhang

We consider semi-algebraic subsets of the Grassmannian of lines in three-space called tree amplituhedra. These arise in the study of scattering amplitudes from particle physics. Our main result states that tree amplituhedra in ${\rm…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Kristian Ranestad , Rainer Sinn , Simon Telen

The amplituhedron Ank4 is a geometric object, introduced by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka (2013) in the study of scattering amplitudes in quantum field theories. They conjecture that Ank4 admits a decomposition into images of BCFW positroid cells,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Chaim Even-Zohar , Tsviqa Lakrec , Ran J. Tessler

In the Grassmannian formulation of the S-matrix for planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills, $N^{k-2}MHV$ scattering amplitudes for $k$ negative and $n-k$ positive helicity gluons can be expressed, by an application of the global residue…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-20 Freddy Cachazo , Nick Early

We define the square amplitudes in planar Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena theory (ABJM), analogous to that in $\mathcal{N}{=}4$ super-Yang-Mills theory (SYM). Surprisingly, the $n$-point $L$-loop integrands with fixed $N{:=}n{+}L$ are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-07 Song He , Canxin Shi , Yichao Tang , Yao-Qi Zhang

The conjectured duality relating all-loop leading singularities of n-particle N^(k-2)MHV scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM to a simple contour integral over the Grassmannian G(k,n) makes all the symmetries of the theory manifest. Every…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Jaroslav Trnka

We obtain compact formulae for tree super-amplitudes for 10 and 11-dimensional supergravity and 10-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills and Born-Infeld. These are based on the \emph{polarised scattering equations}. These incorporate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-11 Yvonne Geyer , Lionel Mason

The Exponential Formula allows one to enumerate any class of combinatorial objects built by choosing a set of connected components and placing a structure on each connected component which depends only on its size. There are multiple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Robert Moerman , Lauren K. Williams

In addition to the superconformal symmetry of the underlying Lagrangian, the scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory exhibit a new, dual superconformal symmetry. We address the question of how powerful these symmetries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-17 G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We argue that the scattering amplitudes in the maximally supersymmetric N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory possess a new symmetry which extends the previously discovered dual conformal symmetry. To reveal this property we formulate the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-22 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-23 Junjie Rao

We present a geometric derivation of all-multiplicity (single-trace) tree-level Einstein Yang-Mills (EYM) amplitudes ${\cal A}(n;r)$ involving $n$ gluons and $r$ gravitons by a bilinear of two twisted differential forms on the moduli space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Pouria Mazloumi , Stephan Stieberger

It has been recently conjectured that scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills are given by the volume of the (dual) amplituhedron. In this paper we show some interesting connections between the tree-level amplituhedron and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Andrea Orta , Matteo Parisi

We review recent progress in the understanding of symmetries for scattering amplitudes in N=4 superconformal Yang-Mills theory. It is summarized how the superficial breaking of superconformal symmetry by collinear anomalies and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Till Bargheer , Niklas Beisert , Florian Loebbert