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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

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

Following an argument advanced by Feynman, we consider a method for obtaining the effective action which generates the sum of tree diagrams with external physical particles. This technique is applied, in the unbroken \lambda \phi^4 theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Fernando T Brandt , Josif Frenkel

In this note, we prove that the realization of associahedron discovered by Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He, and Yun (ABHY) is a positive geometry for tree-level S-matrix of scalars which have no color and which interact via cubic coupling. More in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-11 Mrunmay Jagadale , Alok Laddha

We initiate a comprehensive investigation of the geometry of the amplituhedron, a recently found geometric object whose volume calculates the integrand of scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM theory. We do so by introducing and studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-18 Sebastian Franco , Daniele Galloni , Alberto Mariotti , Jaroslav Trnka

The biadjoint scalar partial amplitude, $m_n(\mathbb{I},\mathbb{I})$, can be expressed as a single integral over the positive tropical Grassmannian thus producing a Global Schwinger Parameterization. The first result in this work is an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-06 Freddy Cachazo , Bruno Giménez Umbert

Tree and loop level scattering amplitudes which involve physical massless bosons are derived directly from physical constraints such as locality, symmetry and unitarity, bypassing path integral constructions. Amplitudes can be projected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Rutger H. Boels , Hui Luo

Building on the prior work in [1] we locate a family of positive geometries in the kinematic space which are a specific class of convex realisations of the associahedron. These realisations are obtained by scaling and translating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-17 Mrunmay Jagadale , Alok Laddha

The "amplituhedron" for tree-level scattering amplitudes in the bi-adjoint $\phi^3$ theory is given by the ABHY associahedron in kinematic space, which has been generalized to give a realization for all finite-type cluster algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-02 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Song He , Giulio Salvatori , Hugh Thomas

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

Recent years have seen a surprising connection between the physics of scattering amplitudes and a class of mathematical objects--the positive Grassmannian, positive loop Grassmannians, tree and loop Amplituhedra--which have been loosely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yuntao Bai , Thomas Lam

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

Positive geometries were introduced by Arkani-Hamed--Bai--Lam as a method of computing scattering amplitudes in theoretical physics. We show that a positive geometry from a polytope admits a log resolution of singularities to another…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Sarah Brauner , Christopher Eur , Elizabeth Pratt , Raluca Vlad

We provide an efficient recursive formula to compute the canonical forms of arbitrary $d$-dimensional simple polytopes, which are convex polytopes such that every vertex lies precisely on $d$ facets. For illustration purposes, we explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-18 Giulio Salvatori , Stefan Stanojevic

Following~\cite{Arkani-Hamed:2017thz}, we derive a recursion relation by applying a one-parameter deformation of kinematic variables for tree-level scattering amplitudes in bi-adjoint $\phi^3$ theory. The recursion relies on properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-28 Song He , Qinglin Yang

The tree-level scattering amplitudes for $\text{tr}(\phi^3)$ theory can be interpreted as a sum over the vertices of a polytope known as the associahedron. For each graph $G$, there exists a natural generalisation of the associahedron,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-26 Ross Glew , Tomasz Lukowski

The all-loop integrand for scattering amplitudes in planar N = 4 SYM is determined by an "amplitude form" with logarithmic singularities on the boundary of the amplituhedron. In this note we provide strong evidence for a new striking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Andrew Hodges , Jaroslav Trnka

In maximally supersymmetric four-dimensional gauge theories planar on-shell diagrams are closely related to the positive Grassmannian and the cell decomposition of it into the union of so called positroid cells \cite{A}. We establish that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 Michael Movshev , Albert Schwarz

The relationship between certain geometric objects called polytopes and scattering amplitudes has revealed deep structures in QFTs. It has been developed in great depth at the tree- and loop-level amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4~\text{SYM}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-13 Ishan Srivastava

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