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The scattering amplitudes of planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills exhibit a number of remarkable analytic structures, including dual conformal symmetry and logarithmic singularities of integrands. The amplituhedron is a geometric construction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Sean Litsey , James Stankowicz , Jaroslav Trnka

Inspired by the closed contour of momentum conservation in an interaction, we introduce an integrable one-dimensional theory that underlies some integrable models such as the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP)-hierarchy and the amplituhedron. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-12 Maysam Yousefian , Mehrdad Farhoudi

The loop-Amplituhedron $\mathcal{A}^{(L)}_{n}$ is a semialgebraic set in the product of Grassmannians $\mathrm{Gr}_{\mathbb{R}}(2,4)^L$. Recently, many aspects of this geometry for the case of $L=1$ have been elucidated, such as its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Gabriele Dian , Elia Mazzucchelli , Felix Tellander

In this paper we focus on scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and define a long sought-after geometry, the loop momentum amplituhedron, which we conjecture to encode tree and (the integrands of) loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski

Perturbative scattering amplitudes in gauge theories have remarkable simplicity and hidden infinite dimensional symmetries that are completely obscured in the conventional formulation of field theory using Feynman diagrams. This suggests…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jaroslav Trnka

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 is a semialgebraic set in the Grassmannian. We study convexity and duality of amplituhedra. We introduce a notion of convexity, called \textit{extendable convexity}, for real semialgebraic sets in any embedded projective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Elia Mazzucchelli , Elizabeth Pratt

We establish a direct connection between scattering amplitudes in planar four-dimensional theories and a remarkable mathematical structure known as the positive Grassmannian. The central physical idea is to focus on on-shell diagrams as…

The amplituhedron is a semialgebraic set given as the image of the non-negative Grassmannian under a linear map subject to a choice of additional parameters. We define the limit amplituhedron as the limit of amplituhedra by sending one of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Joris Koefler , Rainer Sinn

Positive geometries provide a modern approach for computing scattering amplitudes in a variety of physical models. In order to facilitate the exploration of these new geometric methods, we introduce a Mathematica package called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Tomasz Lukowski , Robert Moerman

We investigate the relation between 4d ambitwistor string theory and on-shell diagrams for planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills and N=8 supergravity, and deduce several new results about their scattering amplitudes at tree-level and 1-loop. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Joseph A. Farrow , Arthur E. Lipstein

On-shell diagrams are gauge invariant quantities which play an important role in the description of scattering amplitudes. Based on the principles of generalized unitarity, they are given by products of elementary three-point amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Artyom Lisitsyn , Umut Oktem , Melissa Sherman-Bennett , Jaroslav Trnka

Any totally positive $(k+m)\times n$ matrix induces a map $\pi_+$ from the positive Grassmannian ${\rm Gr}_+(k,n)$ to the Grassmannian ${\rm Gr}(k,k+m)$, whose image is the amplituhedron $\mathcal{A}_{n,k,m}$ and is endowed with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Fatemeh Mohammadi , Leonid Monin , Matteo Parisi

A Grasstope is the image of the totally nonnegative Grassmannian $\text{Gr}_{\geq 0}(k,n)$ under a linear map $\text{Gr}(k,n)\dashrightarrow \text{Gr}(k,k+m)$. This is a generalization of the amplituhedron, a geometric object of great…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Yelena Mandelshtam , Dmitrii Pavlov , Elizabeth Pratt

In this paper, we take a major step towards the construction and applications of an all-loop, all-multiplicity amplituhedron for three-dimensional planar $\mathcal{N}=6$ Chern-Simons matter theory, or the $\textit{ABJM amplituhedron}$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-26 Song He , Yu-tin Huang , Chia-Kai Kuo

We derive an on-shell diagram recursion for tree-level scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=7$ supergravity. The diagrams are evaluated in terms of Grassmannian integrals and momentum twistors, generalising previous results of Hodges in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Connor Armstrong , Joseph A. Farrow , Arthur E. Lipstein

We propose a new diagrammatic formulation of the all-loop scattering amplitudes/Wilson loops in planar N=4 SYM, dubbed the "momentum-twistor diagrams". These are on-shell-diagrams obtained by gluing trivalent black and white vertices…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Yuntao Bai , Song He

In this article we review, for a mathematical audience, the computation of (tree-level) scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory in detail, in order to bridge the gap in understanding of the subject between mathematicians and physicists.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-25 Shounak De , Dmitrii Pavlov , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

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

In 2005, Britto, Cachazo, Feng and Witten gave a recurrence (now known as the BCFW recurrence) for computing scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang Mills theory. Arkani-Hamed and Trnka subsequently introduced the amplituhedron to give a…