Computational Tools for Trees in Gauge Theory and Gravity

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Main Author: Bourjaily, Jacob L.
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contents We describe a new set of public, self-contained, and versatile computational tools for the investigation, manipulation, and evaluation of tree-level amplitudes in pure (super)Yang-Mills and (super)Gravity, $ϕ^p$-scalar field theory, and various other theories related to these through the double-copy. The package brings together a diverse set of frameworks for representing amplitudes, from twistor string theory and scattering equations, to KLT and the double-copy, to on-shell recursion and the (oriented) positroid geometry of the amplituhedron. In addition to checking agreement across frameworks, we have made it easy to test many of the non-trivial relations satisfied by amplitudes, their components and building blocks, including: Ward identities, KK and BCJ relations, soft theorems, and the $E_{7|7}$ structure of maximal supergravity. Beyond providing a coherent and consistent implementation of many well known (if not publicly available) results, our package includes a number of results well beyond what has existed in the present literature--from local, covariant, manifestly color-kinematic-dual representations of amplitudes for gluons/gravitons at arbitrary multiplicity, to a complete classification of Yangian invariants via oriented homology in the amplituhedron. The Mathematica package `tree_amplitudes', and a notebook illustrating its functionality are available as ancillary files attached to this work's page on the arXiv.
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spellingShingle Computational Tools for Trees in Gauge Theory and Gravity
Bourjaily, Jacob L.
High Energy Physics - Theory
We describe a new set of public, self-contained, and versatile computational tools for the investigation, manipulation, and evaluation of tree-level amplitudes in pure (super)Yang-Mills and (super)Gravity, $ϕ^p$-scalar field theory, and various other theories related to these through the double-copy. The package brings together a diverse set of frameworks for representing amplitudes, from twistor string theory and scattering equations, to KLT and the double-copy, to on-shell recursion and the (oriented) positroid geometry of the amplituhedron. In addition to checking agreement across frameworks, we have made it easy to test many of the non-trivial relations satisfied by amplitudes, their components and building blocks, including: Ward identities, KK and BCJ relations, soft theorems, and the $E_{7|7}$ structure of maximal supergravity. Beyond providing a coherent and consistent implementation of many well known (if not publicly available) results, our package includes a number of results well beyond what has existed in the present literature--from local, covariant, manifestly color-kinematic-dual representations of amplitudes for gluons/gravitons at arbitrary multiplicity, to a complete classification of Yangian invariants via oriented homology in the amplituhedron. The Mathematica package `tree_amplitudes', and a notebook illustrating its functionality are available as ancillary files attached to this work's page on the arXiv.
title Computational Tools for Trees in Gauge Theory and Gravity
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17745