Landau singularities from the amplituhedron

Autor: T. Dennen, I. Prlina, M. Spradlin, S. Stanojevic, A. Volovich
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2017, Iss 6, Pp 1-29 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2017)152
Popis: Abstract We propose a simple geometric algorithm for determining the complete set of branch points of amplitudes in planar N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory directly from the amplituhedron, without resorting to any particular representation in terms of local Feynman integrals. This represents a step towards translating integrands directly into integrals. In particular, the algorithm provides information about the symbol alphabets of general amplitudes. We illustrate the algorithm applied to the one- and two-loop MHV amplitudes.
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