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We define a new geometry obtained from the all-loop amplituhedron in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM by reducing its four-dimensional external and loop momenta to three dimensions. Focusing on the simplest four-point case, we provide strong evidence that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-19 Song He , Chia-Kai Kuo , Zhenjie Li , Yao-Qi Zhang

The amplituhedron provides a beautiful description of perturbative superamplitude integrands in N=4 SYM in terms of purely geometric objects, generalisations of polytopes. On the other hand the Wilson loop in supertwistor space also gives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Paul Heslop , Alastair Stewart

In this paper we study the orthogonal momentum amplituhedron $\mathcal{O}_k$, a recently introduced positive geometry that encodes the tree-level scattering amplitudes in ABJM theory. We generate the full boundary stratification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Tomasz Lukowski , Robert Moerman , Jonah Stalknecht

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

Dual superconformal invariance has recently emerged as a hidden symmetry of planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. This symmetry can be made manifest by expressing amplitudes in terms of `momentum twistors', as opposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Lionel Mason , David Skinner

The geometric structure of S-matrix encapsulated by the "Amplituhedron program" has begun to reveal itself even in non-supersymmetric quantum field theories. Starting with the seminal work of Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He and Yan it is now…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Mrunmay Jagadale , Alok Laddha

The simplicity and hidden symmetries of (Super) Yang-Mills and (Super)Gravity scattering amplitudes suggest the existence of a "weak-weak" dual formulation in which these structures are made manifest at the expense of manifest locality. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Freddy Cachazo , Clifford Cheung , Jared Kaplan

Ambitwistor strings are chiral (holomorphic) strings whose target is the space of complex null geodesics, ambitwistor space. We introduce twistor representations of ambitwistor space in 6 and 5 dimensions. In 6d the twistor representation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Yvonne Geyer , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

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

We define the square amplitudes in planar Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena theory (ABJM), analogous to that in $\mathcal{N}{=}4$ super-Yang-Mills theory (SYM). Surprisingly, the $n$-point $L$-loop integrands with fixed $N{:=}n{+}L$ are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-07 Song He , Canxin Shi , Yichao Tang , Yao-Qi Zhang

We present a new, explicit formula for all tree-level amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. The formula is written as a certain contour integral of the connected prescription of Witten's twistor string, expressed in link variables. A very…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Jaroslav Trnka , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

Positive geometries provide a purely geometric point of departure for studying scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. A positive geometry is a specific semi-algebraic set equipped with a unique rational top form - the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Robert Moerman

MHV diagrams give an efficient Feynman diagram-like formalism for calculating gauge theory scattering amplitudes on momentum space. Although they arise as the Feynman diagrams from an action on twistor space in an axial gauge, the main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason

We show that, at the classical level, the recently proposed `ambitwistor string' model is equivalent to the spinor moving frame formulation of null-supersting, which in its turn is equivalent to Siegel's formulation of closed twistor string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Igor Bandos

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

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 initiate an exploration of on-shell functions in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM beyond the planar limit by providing compact, combinatorial expressions for all leading singularities of MHV amplitudes and showing that they can always be expressed as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-31 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Alexander Postnikov , Jaroslav Trnka

We consider the description of reggeon amplitudes (Wilson lines form factors) in N=4 SYM within the framework of four dimensional ambitwistor string theory. The latter is used to derive scattering equations representation for reggeon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 L. V. Bork , A. I. Onishchenko

We initiate a systematic study on how to extract planar integrands of (supersymmetric) scattering amplitudes with $L$ loops and $n$ legs in Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory from the recently proposed (bosonic) generating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Song He , Yao-Qi Zhang

We prove the formula for the complete tree-level $S$-matrix of $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity recently conjectured by two of the authors. The proof proceeds by showing that the new formula satisfies the same BCFW recursion relations that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-02 Freddy Cachazo , Lionel Mason , David Skinner