Journal of High Energy Physics (Apr 2020)

Tropical Grassmannians, cluster algebras and scattering amplitudes

  • James Drummond,
  • Jack Foster,
  • Ömer Gürdoğan,
  • Chrysostomos Kalousios

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2020)146
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 4
pp. 1 – 23

Abstract

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Abstract We provide a cluster-algebraic approach to the computation of the recently introduced generalised biadjoint scalar amplitudes related to Grassmannians Gr(k, n). A finite cluster algebra provides a natural triangulation for the tropical Grassmannian whose volume computes the scattering amplitudes. Using this method one can construct the entire colour-ordered amplitude via mutations starting from a single term.

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