1-loop amplitudes from the Halohedron

Abstract

Abstract We recently proposed the Halohedron to be the 1-loop Amplituhedron for planar 𝜙3 theory. Here we prove this claim by showing how it is possible to extract the integrand for the partial amplitude m n 1 $$ {m}_n^1 $$ (l, ..., n|1, ... ,n) from the canonical form of an Halohedron which lives in an abstract space. This space is just a step away from ordinary kinematical space at 1-loop, because it is composed by abstract variables associated to propagators of 1-loop Feynman diagrams. Such variables, however, are unbound from momentum conservation relations that would give problems such as double poles. As an application of our construction, we exploit a well known recursion formula for the canonical form of a polytope in order to produce an expression for the 1-loop integrand which would not be evident starting from Feynman diagrams.

Keywords

• Scattering Amplitudes
• Differential and Algebraic Geometry