Deep Into the Amplituhedron: Amplitude Singularities at All Loops and Legs

被引:33
作者
Arkani-Hamed, Nima [1 ]
Langer, Cameron [2 ]
Srikant, Akshay Yelleshpur [3 ]
Trnka, Jaroslav [2 ]
机构
[1] Inst Adv Study, Sch Nat Sci, Olden Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
[2] Univ Calif Davis, Ctr Quantum Math & Phys QMAP, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[3] Princeton Univ, Dept Phys, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
关键词
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.051601
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
In this Letter we compute a canonical set of cuts of the integrand for maximally helicity violating amplitudes in planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, where all internal propagators are put on shell. These "deepest cuts" probe the most complicated Feynman diagrams and on-shell processes that can possibly contribute to the amplitude, but are also naturally associated with remarkably simple geometric facets of the amplituhedron. The recent reformulation of the amplituhedron in terms of combinatorial geometry directly in the kinematic (momentum-twistor) space plays a crucial role in understanding this geometry and determining the cut. This provides us with the first nontrivial results on scattering amplitudes in the theory valid for arbitrarily many loops and external particle multiplicities.
引用
收藏
页数:7
相关论文
共 28 条
[1]   Local integrals for planar scattering amplitudes [J].
Arkani-Hamed, N. ;
Bourjaily, J. ;
Cachazo, F. ;
Trnka, J. .
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2012, (06)
[2]  
Arkani-Hamed N, 2011, J HIGH ENERGY PHYS, DOI 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)041
[3]  
Arkani-Hamed N., 2016, Grassmannian Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes, P194, DOI DOI 10.1017/CBO9781316091548
[4]   Scattering forms and the positive geometry of kinematics, color and the worldsheet [J].
Arkani-Hamed, Nima ;
Bai, Yuntao ;
He, Song ;
Yan, Gongwang .
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2018, (05)
[5]   Unwinding the amplituhedron in binary [J].
Arkani-Hamed, Nima ;
Thomas, Hugh ;
Trnka, Jaroslav .
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2018, (01)
[6]   Positive geometries and canonical forms [J].
Arkani-Hamed, Nima ;
Bai, Yuntao ;
Lam, Thomas .
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2017, (11)
[7]   Positive amplitudes in the amplituhedron [J].
Arkani-Hamed, Nima ;
Hodges, Andrew ;
Trnka, Jaroslav .
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2015, (08)
[8]   Into the amplituhedron [J].
Arkani-Hamed, Nima ;
Trnka, Jaroslav .
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2014, (12)
[9]   The Amplituhedron [J].
Arkani-Hamed, Nima ;
Trnka, Jaroslav .
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2014, (10)
[10]   The amplituhedron and the one-loop Grassmannian measure [J].
Bai, Yuntao ;
He, Song ;
Lam, Thomas .
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2016, (01) :1-42