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A new construction of the associahedron was recently given by Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He, and Yan in connection with the physics of scattering amplitudes. We show that their construction (suitably understood) can be applied to construct…

The physical principles of causality and unitarity put strong constraints on the analytic structure of the flat-space S-matrix. In particular, these principles give rise to the Steinmann relations, which require that the double…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Paolo Benincasa , Andrew J. McLeod , Cristian Vergu

A graph associahedron is a simple polytope whose face lattice encodes the nested structure of the connected subgraphs of a given graph. In this paper, we study certain graph properties of the 1-skeleta of graph associahedra, such as their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Thibault Manneville , Vincent Pilaud

The article discusses the correctness of the assumption about the similarity of molecular continuum electron functions with wave functions in electron-atom scattering. The elastic scattering of slow particles by pair of non-overlapping…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 A. S. Baltenkov , I. Woiciechowski

We consider amplituhedron-like geometries which are defined in a similar way to the intrinsic definition of the amplituhedron but with non-maximal winding number. We propose that for the cases with minimal number of points the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-01 Gabriele Dian , Paul Heslop

We describe a new sequence of polytopes which characterize A_infinity maps from a topological monoid to an A_infinity space. Therefore each of these polytopes is a quotient of the corresponding multiplihedron. Later term(s) in our sequence…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-05-08 Stefan Forcey

We present a connection between the physics of cosmological time evolution and the mathematics of positive geometries, roughly analogous to similar connections seen in the context of scattering amplitudes. We consider the wavefunction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-12 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Paolo Benincasa , Alexander Postnikov

We continue the study of open associahedra associated with bi-color scattering amplitudes initiated in arXiv:1912.08307. We focus on the facet geometries of the open associahedra, uncovering many new phenomena such as fiber-product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-23 Aidan Herderschee , Fei Teng

Motivated by the cluster structure of two-loop scattering amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory we define "cluster polylogarithm functions". We find that all such functions of weight 4 are made up of a single simple building block associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-07 John Golden , Miguel F. Paulos , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We describe many different realizations with integer coordinates for the associahedron (i.e. the Stasheff polytope) and for the cyclohedron (i.e. the Bott-Taubes polytope) and compare them to the permutahedron of type A_n and B_n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-20 Christophe Hohlweg , Carsten Lange

We show that cosmological wavefunctions in $\phi^n$ theories naturally generalize flat-space $\mathrm{Tr}(\phi^3)$ scattering amplitudes: via a simple map from tube variables to Mandelstam invariants, each wavefunction coefficient…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Yang Li , Laurentiu Rodina

A generalized scattering amplitude where momenta of incoming-particles and outgoing-particles as well as positions of incoming-particles and outgoing-particles are specified is formulated. Idealistic beams and idealistic measuring…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenzo Ishikawa , Takashi Shimomura

Nestohedra are a family of convex polytopes that includes permutohedra, associahedra, and graph associahedra. In this paper, we study an extension of such polytopes, called extended nestohedra. We show that these objects are indeed the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Quang Dao , Christina Meng , Julian Wellman , Zixuan Xu , Calvin Yost-Wolff , Teresa Yu

We present a formalism for the scattering of an arbitrary linear or acyclic branched structure build by joining mutually non-interacting arbitrary functional sub-units. The formalism consists of three equations expressing the structural…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Carsten Svaneborg , Jan Skov Pedersen

In this paper we study the cluster algebraic properties of wavefunction coefficients for massless scalar theories in de Sitter cosmology. We show that the symbol of the wavefunction coefficient of the $n$-site path graph $P_n$ obeys a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Mattia Capuano , Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Alessandro Palazio , Yao-Qi Zhang

Brick polytopes constitute a remarkable family of polytopes associated to the spherical subword complexes of Knutson and Miller. They were introduced for finite Coxeter groups by Pilaud and Stump, who used them to produce geometric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Cesar Ceballos , Matthias Müller

A graph associahedron is a polytope dual to a simplicial complex whose elements are induced connected subgraphs called tubes. Graph associahedra generalize permutahedra, associahedra, and cyclohedra, and therefore are of great interest to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Jordan Almeter

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

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

Recently we developed a formalism for the scattering from linear and acyclic branched structures build of mutually non-interacting sub-units.{[}C. Svaneborg and J. S. Pedersen, J. Chem. Phys. 136, 104105 (2012){]} We assumed each sub-unit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Carsten Svaneborg , Jan Skov Pedersen