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Over the past year, the "scalar-scaffolding" formalism has revealed a number of new features of gluon amplitudes. In this paper, we leverage these developments to study two distinct but related questions, linked by the scaffolding statement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Jeffrey V. Backus , Carolina Figueiredo

A split tree of cardinality $n$ is constructed by distributing $n$ "balls" in a subset of vertices of an infinite tree which encompasses many types of random trees such as $m$-ary search trees, quad trees, median-of-$(2k+1)$ trees,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Gabriel Berzunza , Xing Shi Cai , Cecilia Holmgren

We provide a cluster-algebraic approach to the computation of the recently introduced generalised biadjoint scalar amplitudes related to Grassmannians ${\rm Gr}(k,n)$. A finite cluster algebra provides a natural triangulation for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-26 James Drummond , Jack Foster , Ömer Gürdoğan , Chrysostomos Kalousios

Physical properties of scattering amplitudes are mapped to the Riemann zeta function. Specifically, a closed-form amplitude is constructed, describing the tree-level exchange of a tower with masses $m_n^2 = \mu_n^2$, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-09 Grant N. Remmen

We uncover a relation between the scattering amplitudes of massive strings and the $\alpha'$ expansion of the massless string amplitude at tree level. More precisely, the n-point tree amplitude of n-1 massless and one massive state is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-22 Sitender Pratap Kashyap , Carlos R. Mafra , Mritunjay Verma , Luis Alberto Ypanaqué

We conjecture that the leading two-derivative tree-level amplitudes for gluons and gravitons can be derived from gauge invariance together with mild assumptions on their singularity structure. Assuming locality (that the singularities are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Laurentiu Rodina , Jaroslav Trnka

We investigate MHV tree-level gravity amplitudes as defined on the spinor-helicity variety. Unlike their gluon counterparts, the gravity amplitudes do not have logarithmic singularities and do not admit Amplituhedron-like construction.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Joris Koefler , Umut Oktem , Shruti Paranjape , Jaroslav Trnka , Bailee Zacovic

Scattering amplitudes for discrete states in 2D string theory are considered. Pole divergences of tree-level amplitudes are extracted and residues are interpreted as renormalized amplitudes for discrete states. An effective Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 I. Ya. Aref'eva , A. P. Zubarev

Classification of cluster variables in cluster algebras (in particular, Grassmannian cluster algebras) is an important problem, which has direct application to computations of scattering amplitudes in physics. In this paper, we apply the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Man-Wai Cheung , Pierre-Philippe Dechant , Yang-Hui He , Elli Heyes , Edward Hirst , Jian-Rong Li

We prove that all tree-level $n$-point supergluon (scalar) amplitudes in AdS$_5$ can be recursively constructed, using factorization and flat-space limit. Our method is greatly facilitated by a natural R-symmetry basis for planar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Qu Cao , Song He , Yichao Tang

We prove a conjecture of Geiss, Leclerc and Schr\"{o}er, producing cluster algebra structures on multi-homogeneous coordinate ring of partial flag varieties, for the case $G_2$. As a consequence we sharpen the known fact that coordinate…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Sachin Gautam

We extend the recently established Mellin correspondence of supergravity and superstring amplitudes to the case of arbitrary helicity configurations. The amplitudes are discussed in the framework of Grassmannian varieties. We generalize…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-11 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

We give an explicit combinatorial description of cluster structures in Schubert varieties of the Grassmannian in terms of (target labelings of) Postnikov's plabic graphs. This description is a natural generalization of the description given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Khrystyna Serhiyenko , Melissa Sherman-Bennett , Lauren Williams

These lectures are centred around tree-level scattering amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theories, the most prominent example is given by the tree-level gluon amplitudes of QCD. I will discuss several ways of computing these amplitudes,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-23 Stefan Weinzierl

Period domains, the classifying spaces for (pure, polarized) Hodge structures, and more generally Mumford-Tate domains, arise as open $G_{\mathbb{R}}$--orbits in flag varieties $G/P$. We investigate Hodge--theoretic aspects of the geometry…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Matt Kerr , Colleen Robles

The structure of tree-level open and closed superstring amplitudes is analyzed. For the open superstring amplitude we find a striking and elegant form, which allows to disentangle its alpha'-expansion into several contributions accounting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 O. Schlotterer , S. Stieberger

Using a high-performance computing cluster to mosaic 4,787 pointings, we have imaged the 100 sq. deg. South Pole Telescope (SPT) deep-field at 2.1 GHz using the Australian Telescope Compact Array to an rms of 80 $\mu$Jy and a resolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-08 A. N. O'Brien , N. F. H. Tothill , R. P. Norris , M. D. Filipović

We present results for the six-gluon scattering amplitude at one-loop. Since our method is semi-numerical, it yields the result for arbitrary momenta and helicities of the external gluons. We evaluate the colour-ordered sub-amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Giulia Zanderighi

We introduce some new Frobenius subcategories of the module category of a preprojective algebra of Dynkin type, and we show that they have a cluster structure in the sense of Buan-Iyama-Reiten-Scott. These categorical cluster structures…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-06 Bernard Leclerc

We compute tree-level gluon amplitudes as worldline correlators of vertex operators in a bosonic spinning particle model. In this framework, the particle's position degrees of freedom are extended by complex bosonic variables that encode…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Roberto Bonezzi , Olindo Corradini , Filippo Fecit