Published October 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

The positive geometry for 𝜙p interactions

  • 1. Institute of Mathematical Sciences (India)

Description

Starting with the seminal work of Arkani-Hamed et al. [1], in [2], the "Ampli- tuhedron program" was extended to analyzing (planar) amplitudes in massless 𝜙 4 theory. In this paper we show that the program can be further extended to include 𝜙p (p > 4) interactions. We show that tree-level planar amplitudes in these theories can be obtained from geometry of polytopes called accordiohedron which naturally sits inside kinematic space. As in the case of quartic interactions the accordiohedron of a given dimension is not unique, and we show that a weighted sum of residues of the canonical form on these polytopes can be used to compute scattering amplitudes. We finally provide a prescription to compute the weights and demonstrate how it works in various examples.

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Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2019
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 1-34
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
54064750
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
Descriptors DEI
GEOMETRY; INTERACTIONS; RESIDUES; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; SPACE
Descriptors DEC
AMPLITUDES; MATHEMATICS

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