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In recent years, it has been understood that color-ordered scattering amplitudes can be encoded as logarithmic differential forms on positive geometries. In particular, amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 David Damgaard , Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Robert Moerman

We introduce a formalism for describing four-dimensional scattering amplitudes for particles of any mass and spin. This naturally extends the familiar spinor-helicity formalism for massless particles to one where these variables carry an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Tzu-Chen Huang , Yu-tin Huang

We introduce the polytope of pointed pseudo-triangulations of a point set in the plane, defined as the polytope of infinitesimal expansive motions of the points subject to certain constraints on the increase of their distances. Its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Guenter Rote , Francisco Santos , Ileana Streinu

In this paper, we explore the applicability of the BCFW-like recursion relations \cite{He:2018svj,Yang:2019esm} to a wider class of positive geometries. Previously it was found in \cite{Jagadale:2022rbl}, the tree level scattering amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Sujoy Mahato , Sourav Roychowdhury

In [1,2] it was shown that the subleading soft photon theorem in tree level amplitudes in massless QED is equivalent to a new class of symmetries of the theory parameterized by a vector field on the celestial sphere. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Alok Laddha , Prahar Mitra

The momentum amplituhedron is a positive geometry encoding tree-level scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills directly in spinor-helicity space. In this paper we classify all boundaries of the momentum amplituhedron…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Robert Moerman

We develop a formalism for describing the most general notion of tree-level scattering amplitudes in 4d conformal higher spin theory. As conformal higher spin fields obey higher-derivative equations of motion, there are many distinct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-13 Tim Adamo , Simon Nakach , Arkady A. Tseytlin

We elaborate on the recent proposal that intersection numbers of certain cohomology classes on the moduli space of genus-zero Riemann surfaces with punctures compute tree-level scattering amplitudes in quantum field theories. The relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-24 Sebastian Mizera

We revisit the relations between open and closed string scattering amplitudes discovered by Kawai, Lewellen, and Tye (KLT). We show that they emerge from the underlying algebro-topological identities known as the twisted period relations.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-25 Sebastian Mizera

We review some recent developments in the understanding of field theories in the perturbative regime. In particular, we discuss the notions of analyticity, unitarity and locality, and therefore the singularity structure of scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Paolo Benincasa

In this paper we study the role of planarity in generalized scattering amplitudes, through several closely interacting structures in combinatorics, algebraic and tropical geometry. The generalized biadjoint scalar amplitude, introduced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Nick Early

We review the structure of gauge theory scattering amplitudes at tree level and describe how a compact expression can be found which encodes all the tree-level amplitudes in the maximally supersymmetric N=4 theory. The expressions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 J. M. Drummond

A generalized scattering amplitude where momenta of incoming-particles and outgoing-particles as well as positions of incoming-particles and outgoing-particles are specified is formulated. Idealistic beams and idealistic measuring…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenzo Ishikawa , Takashi Shimomura

Recent years have seen the emergence of a new understanding of scattering amplitudes in the simplest theory of colored scalar particles - the Tr$(\phi^3)$ theory - based on combinatorial and geometric ideas in the kinematic space of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Qu Cao , Jin Dong , Carolina Figueiredo , Song He

We present a new formula for the biadjoint scalar tree amplitudes $m(\alpha|\beta)$ based on the combinatorics of dual associahedra. Our construction makes essential use of the cones in 'kinematic space' introduced by Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Hadleigh Frost

The amplituhedron was recently introduced in the study of scattering amplitudes in $N=4$ super Yang-Mills. We compute the cohomology class of a tree amplituhedron subvariety of the Grassmannian to be the truncation of an affine Stanley…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-22 Thomas Lam

A new construction of the associahedron was recently given by Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He, and Yan in connection with the physics of scattering amplitudes. We show that their construction (suitably understood) can be applied to construct…

We introduce a new positive geometry, the associahedral grid, which provides a geometric realization of the inverse string theory KLT kernel. It captures the full $\alpha'$-dependence of stringified amplitudes for bi-adjoint scalar $\phi^3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Christoph Bartsch , Karol Kampf , David Podivin , Jonah Stalknecht

We emphasize that scattering amplitudes of a wide class of models to any order in the coupling are constructible by on-shell tree subamplitudes. This follows from the Feynman-tree theorem combined with BCFW on-shell recursion relations. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 M. Maniatis

We present new, fundamentally combinatorial and topological characterizations of the amplituhedron. Upon projecting external data through the amplituhedron, the resulting configuration of points has a specified (and maximal) generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Hugh Thomas , Jaroslav Trnka