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We initiate the study of positive geometry and scattering forms for tree-level amplitudes with matter particles in the (anti-)fundamental representation of the color/flavor group. As a toy example, we study the bi-color scalar theory, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-08 Aidan Herderschee , Song He , Fei Teng , Yong Zhang

It has been a long-standing challenge to find a geometric object underlying the cosmological wavefunction for Tr($\phi^3$) theory, generalizing associahedra and surfacehedra for scattering amplitudes. In this note we describe a new class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Carolina Figueiredo , Francisco Vazão

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

A geometric approach to understanding recursion relations for scattering amplitudes is developed. We achieve this by studying intersection numbers of triangulated accordiohedra presented as hyperplane arrangements. The cancellation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-25 Nikhil Kalyanapuram

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

We consider the moduli space of bordered Riemann surfaces with boundary and marked points. Such spaces appear in open-closed string theory, particularly with respect to holomorphic curves with Lagrangian submanifolds. We consider a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-14 Satyan L. Devadoss , Timothy Heath , Cid Vipismakul

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

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

Scattering amplitudes are both a wonderful playground to discover novel ideas in Quantum Field Theory and simultaneously of immense phenomenological importance to make precision predictions for e.g.~particle collider observables and more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-24 Enrico Herrmann , Jaroslav Trnka

In [1], two of the present authors along with P. Raman attempted to extend the Amplituhedron program for scalar field theories [2] to quartic scalar interactions. In this paper we develop various aspects of this proposal. Using recent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-12 P B Aneesh , Pinaki Banerjee , Mrunmay Jagadale , Renjan Rajan John , Alok Laddha , Sujoy Mahato

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

By employing the ${\rm AdS}_3/{\rm CFT}_2$ correspondence in this note we observe an analogy between the structures found in connection with the Arkani-Hamed-Bai-He-Yan (ABHY) associahedron used for understanding scattering amplitudes, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-19 Péter Lévay

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 are generalizing to higher dimensions the Bavard-Ghys construction of the hyperbolic metric on the space of polygons with fixed directions of edges. The space of convex d-dimensional polyhedra with fixed directions of facet normals has a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Francois Fillastre , Ivan Izmestiev

Scattering amplitudes of $\operatorname{tr}(\phi^3)$ theory can be encoded as the canonical form of the Stasheff associahedron. Similarly, the flat-space wavefunction coefficients of the same theory are captured by the recently proposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-17 Stefan Forcey , Ross Glew , Hyungrok Kim

The associahedron is a convex polytope whose face poset is based on nonintersecting diagonals of a convex polygon. In this paper, given an arbitrary simple polygon P, we construct a polytopal complex analogous to the associahedron based on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Satyan L. Devadoss , Rahul Shah , Xuancheng Shao , Ezra Winston

Recently, the accordiohedron in kinematic space was proposed as the positive geometry for planar tree-level scattering amplitudes in the $\phi^p$ theory \cite{Raman:2019utu}. The scattering amplitudes are given as a weighted sum over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Ryota Kojima

This paper introduces a new method to solve the problem of the approximation of the diagonal for face-coherent families of polytopes. We recover the classical cases of the simplices and the cubes and we solve it for the associahedra, also…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Naruki Masuda , Hugh Thomas , Andy Tonks , Bruno Vallette

The fragmentation functions and scattering amplitudes are investigated in the framework of light-front perturbation theory. It is demonstrated that, the factorization property of the fragmentation functions implies the recursion relations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Christian A. Cruz-Santiago , Anna M. Stasto

We use the differential algebra of polytopes to explain the known remarkable relation of the combinatorics of the associahedra and permutohedra with the universal compositional and multiplicative inversion formulas for the formal power…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-11 V. M. Buchstaber , A. P. Veselov
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