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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 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

''Positive geometries'' are a class of semi-algebraic domains which admit a unique ''canonical form'': a logarithmic form whose residues match the boundary structure of the domain. The study of such geometries is motivated by recent…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Francis Brown , Clément Dupont

Recent breakthroughs in the study of scattering amplitudes have uncovered profound and unexpected connections with combinatorial geometry. These connections range from classical structures -- such as polytopes, matroids, and Grassmannians…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Thomas Lam

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

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

We characterise the quotient surface graphs arising from symmetric contact systems of line segments in the plane and also from symmetric pointed pseudotriangulations in the case where the group of symmetries is generated by a translation or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-22 James Cruickshank , Bernd Schulze

Real physical systems with reflective and rotational symmetries such as viruses, fullerenes and quasicrystals have recently been modeled successfully in terms of three-dimensional (affine) Coxeter groups. Motivated by this progress, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Pierre-Philippe Dechant

This review is a primer on recently established geometric methods for observables in quantum field theories. The main emphasis is on amplituhedra, i.e. geometries encoding scattering amplitudes for a variety of theories. These pertain to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski

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 note we make a field-theoretical derivation of a series of new recursion relations by a one-parameter deformation of kinematic variables for tree and one-loop amplitudes of bi-adjoint $\phi^3$ theory. Tree amplitudes are given by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-26 Qinglin Yang

A compatible associative algebra is a vector space equipped with two associative multiplication structures that interact in a certain natural way. This article presents the classification of these algebras with dimension less than four, as…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Erik Mainellis , Bouzid Mosbahi , Ahmed Zahari

The search for a theory of the S-Matrix has revealed surprising geometric structures underlying amplitudes ranging from the worldsheet to the amplituhedron, but these are all geometries in auxiliary spaces as opposed to kinematic space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yuntao Bai , Song He , Gongwang Yan

Low-energy scattering is well described by the effective-range expansion. In quantum mechanics, a tower of contact interactions can generate terms in this expansion after renormalization. Scattering parameters are also encoded in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Daniel R. DeSena , Brian C. Tiburzi

It has long been clear that the conformal bootstrap is associated with a rich geometry. In this paper we undertake a systematic exploration of this geometric structure as an object of study in its own right. We study conformal blocks for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yu-tin Huang , Shu-Heng Shao

In this paper we provide a first attempt towards a toric geometric interpretation of scattering amplitudes. In recent investigations it has indeed been proposed that the all-loop integrand of planar N=4 SYM can be represented in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Antonio Amariti , Davide Forcella

We elaborate on aspects of a new positive geometry proposed recently, which was conjectured to be the four-point amplituhedron for ABJM theory. We study generalized unitarity cuts from the geometry, and in particular we prove that (1) the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Song He , Chia-Kai Kuo , Zhenjie Li , Yao-Qi Zhang

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

We study, in the context of the three-dimensional ${\cal N}=6$ Chern-Simons-matter (ABJM) theory, the infrared-finite functions that result from performing $L-1$ loop integrations over the $L$-loop integrand of the logarithm of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-28 Johannes M. Henn , Martín Lagares , Shun-Qing Zhang

Coupled cluster theory produced arguably the most widely used high-accuracy computational quantum chemistry methods. Despite the approach's overall great computational success, its mathematical understanding is so far limited to results…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Fabian M. Faulstich , Mathias Oster