All-helicity symbol alphabets from unwound amplituhedra
Here we review an algorithm for determining the branch points of general amplitudes in planar <em>N</em> = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory from amplituhedra. We demonstrate how to use the recent reformulation of amplituhedra in terms of ‘sign flips’ in order to streamline the application of this algorithm to amplitudes of any helicity. In this way we recover the known branch points of all one-loop amplitudes, and we find an ‘emergent positivity’ on boundaries of amplituhedra.
Authors
- Igor Prlina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0184-7874)
Institutions
- Brown University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
- Published
- 2024-11-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282018%29159
- Citations
- 27
- Primary Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Type
- article
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- CERN
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics