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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 $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory in spinor helicity space. Inspired by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 David Damgaard , Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Matteo Parisi

In this thesis, we take a journey through two different but not dissimilar stories with an underlying theme of combinatorics emerging from scattering amplitudes in quantum field theories. The first part tells the tale of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Simone Hu

We present new triangulations of the $m=4$ amplituhedron relevant for scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills, obtained directly from the combinatorial definition of the geometry. Using the "sign flip"…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Ryota Kojima , Cameron Langer

A main conjecture in the field of Positive Geometry states that amplituhedra, which are certain semi-algebraic sets in the Grassmannian, are positive geometries. It is motivated by examples showing that the canonical forms of certain…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Joris Koefler , Dmitrii Pavlov , Rainer Sinn

The scattering amplitudes of planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills exhibit a number of remarkable analytic structures, including dual conformal symmetry and logarithmic singularities of integrands. The amplituhedron is a geometric construction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Sean Litsey , James Stankowicz , Jaroslav Trnka

The amplituhedron is a semialgebraic set in the Grassmannian. We study convexity and duality of amplituhedra. We introduce a notion of convexity, called \textit{extendable convexity}, for real semialgebraic sets in any embedded projective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Elia Mazzucchelli , Elizabeth Pratt

We find aspects of electrically confining large $N$ Yang-Mills theories on $T^2 \times R^{d-2}$ which are consistent with a $GL(2,Z)$ duality. The modular parameter associated with this $GL(2,Z)$ is given by ${m\over N} + i\Lambda^2 A$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Guralnik

In this paper we review recent results on symmetries in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Symmetries are of invaluable help in studying and constraining the scattering amplitudes, and there has been a lot of progress in recent years concerning…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 L. Ferro

In this paper, we take a major step towards the construction and applications of an all-loop, all-multiplicity amplituhedron for three-dimensional planar $\mathcal{N}=6$ Chern-Simons matter theory, or the $\textit{ABJM amplituhedron}$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-26 Song He , Yu-tin Huang , Chia-Kai Kuo

In this paper we study a relation between two positive geometries: the momentum amplituhedron, relevant for tree-level scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super Yang-Mills theory, and the kinematic associahedron, encoding tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 David Damgaard , Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Robert Moerman

In this note we further investigate the procedure for computing tree-level amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory from connected instantons in the B-model on P^{3|4}, emphasizing that the problem of calculating Feynman diagrams is recast into the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Radu Roiban , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Inspired by the closed contour of momentum conservation in an interaction, we introduce an integrable one-dimensional theory that underlies some integrable models such as the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP)-hierarchy and the amplituhedron. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-12 Maysam Yousefian , Mehrdad Farhoudi

Starting from a $D=3$, $N=4$ supersymmetric theory for matter fields, a twist with a Grassmann parity change is defined which maps the theory into a gauge fixed, abelian $BF$ theory on curved 3-manifolds. After adding surface terms to this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Brooks , J. -G. Demers , C. Lucchesi

We study a novel geometric expansion for scattering amplitudes in the planar sector of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, in the context of the Amplituhedron which reproduces the all-loop integrand as a canonical differential form on the positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Taro V. Brown , Umut Oktem , Shruti Paranjape , Jaroslav Trnka

We present new formulas for $n$-particle tree-level scattering amplitudes of six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) and $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ supergravity (SUGRA). They are written as integrals over the moduli space of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 Freddy Cachazo , Alfredo Guevara , Matthew Heydeman , Sebastian Mizera , John H. Schwarz , Congkao Wen

We introduce the shuffle of deformed permutahedra (a.k.a. generalized permutahedra), a simple associative operation obtained as the Cartesian product followed by the Minkowski sum with the graphical zonotope of a complete bipartite graph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Frédéric Chapoton , Vincent Pilaud

We show that tree level superstring theories on certain supersymmetric backgrounds admit a symmetry which we call ``fermionic T-duality''. This is a non-local redefinition of the fermionic worldsheet fields similar to the redefinition we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Nathan Berkovits , Juan Maldacena

We derive 4-dimensional N=4 U(N) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory from a 3-dimensional Chern-Simons-matter theory with product gauge group U(N)^{2n}. The latter describes M2-branes probing an orbifold where a torus emerges in a scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Koji Hashimoto , Ta-Sheng Tai , Seiji Terashima

We observe that the three-gluon form factor of the chiral part of the stress-tensor multiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory is dual to the six-gluon MHV amplitude on its parity-preserving surface. Up to a simple variable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-24 Lance J. Dixon , Omer Gurdogan , Andrew J. McLeod , Matthias Wilhelm

We present all-multiplicity evidence that the tree-level S-matrix of gluons and gravitons in heterotic string theory can be reduced to color-ordered single-trace amplitudes of the gauge multiplet. Explicit amplitude relations are derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-22 Oliver Schlotterer