Into the amplituhedron

被引:117
作者
Arkani-Hamed, Nima [1 ]
Trnka, Jaroslav [2 ]
机构
[1] Inst Adv Study, Sch Nat Sci, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
[2] CALTECH, Walter Burke Inst Theoret Phys, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
关键词
Supersymmetric gauge theory; Scattering Amplitudes; N=4; SYM;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP12(2014)182
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We initiate an exploration of the physics and geometry of the amplituhedron, starting with the simplest case of the integrand for four-particle scattering in planar N = 4 SYM. We show how the textbook structure of the unitarity double-cut follows from the positive geometry. We also use the geometry to expose the behavior of the multicollinear limit, providing a direct motivation for studying the logarithm of the amplitude. In addition to computing the two and three-loop integrands, we explore various lower-dimensional faces of the amplituhedron, thereby computing non-trivial cuts of the integrand to all loop orders.
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