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This work investigates the role of the $U(N) \times U(\tilde{N})$ global symmetry in tree-level scattering amplitudes of the bi-adjoint $\phi^3$ theory from three perspectives: combinatorics, correlation functions, and a massive extension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Lauren Smyth

We find that unitarity cuts and the duality between color and kinematics are sufficient constraints to bootstrap $D$-dimensional QCD scattering amplitudes starting from three-particle tree-level. Specifically, we calculate tree level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-25 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Aslan Seifi

Colour-kinematics duality is the conjecture of a group theory-like structure for the kinematic dependence of scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity. This structure has been verified at tree level in various ways, but similar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-18 Rutger H. Boels , Reinke Sven Isermann , Ricardo Monteiro , Donal O'Connell

Bi-adjoint scalars are helpful in studying properties of color/kinematics duality and the double copy, which relates scattering amplitudes of gauge and gravity theories. Here we study bi-adjoint scalars from a worldline perspective. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Francesco Comberiati , Leonardo de la Cruz

This article considers some affine algebraic varieties attached to finite trees and closely related to cluster algebras. Their definition involves a canonical coloring of vertices of trees into three colors. These varieties are proved to be…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Frédéric Chapoton

We introduce the notion of "binary" positive and complex geometries, giving a completely rigid geometric realization of the combinatorics of generalized associahedra attached to any Dynkin diagram. We also define open and closed "cluster…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-18 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Song He , Thomas Lam , Hugh Thomas

Scattering equations for tree-level amplitudes are viewed in the context of string theory. As a result of the comparison we are led to define a new dual model which coincides with string theory in both the small and large $\alpha'$ limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 N. E. J Bjerrum-Bohr , P. H. Damgaard , P. Tourkine , P. Vanhove

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

Scattering methods are widely used in many research areas to analyze and resolve material structures. Given the importance, a large number of full textbooks are devoted to this topic. However, technical details in experiments and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-02 Dingning Li , Kai Zhang

Tree-level $n$-point gauge-theory amplitudes with $n-2k$ gluons and $k$ pairs of (massless or massive) particles in the fundamental (or other) representation of the gauge group are invariant under a set of symmetries that act as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Robert W. Brown , Stephen G. Naculich

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

Spectral and factorization properties of oscillatory matrices leads to a spectral Favard theorem for bounded banded matrices, that admit a positive bidiagonal factorization, in terms of sequences of mixed multiple orthogonal polynomials…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Amílcar Branquinho , Ana Foulquié-Moreno , Manuel Mañas

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

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

Tree-level scattering amplitudes for a scalar particle coupled to an arbitrary number N of photons and a single graviton are computed. We employ the worldline formalism as the main tool to compute the irreducible part of the amplitude,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-04 Naser Ahmadiniaz , Filippo Maria Balli , Olindo Corradini , José Manuel Dávila , Christian Schubert

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 amplituhedron determines scattering amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills by a single "positive geometry" in the space of kinematic and loop variables. We study a closely related definition of the amplituhedron for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Johannes Henn , Jaroslav Trnka

We review completely monotone (CM) and Stieltjes functions, which are classes of functions obeying an infinite hierarchy of positivity constraints. While these are classical concepts in analysis, such properties have recently been shown to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Prashanth Raman

The so-called Scattering Equations which govern the kinematics of the scattering of massless particles in arbitrary dimensions have recently been cast into a system of homogeneous polynomials. We study these as affine and projective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Yang-Hui He , Cyril Matti , Chuang Sun

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