Tropical Amplitudes For Colored Lagrangians
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| author | Arkani-Hamed, Nima Figueiredo, Carolina Frost, Hadleigh Salvatori, Giulio |
| author_facet | Arkani-Hamed, Nima Figueiredo, Carolina Frost, Hadleigh Salvatori, Giulio |
| contents | Recently a new formulation for scattering amplitudes in Tr($Φ^3$) theory has been given based on simple combinatorial ideas in the space of kinematic data. This allows all-loop integrated amplitudes to be expressed as ''curve integrals'' defined using tropical building blocks - the ''headlight functions''. This paper shows how the formulation extends to the amplitudes of more general Lagrangians. We will present a number of different ways of introducing tropical ''numerator functions'' that allow us to describe general Lagrangian interactions. The simplest family of these ''tropical numerators'' computes the amplitudes of interesting Lagrangians with infinitely many interactions. We also describe methods for tropically formulating the amplitudes for general Lagrangians. One uses a variant of ''Wick contraction'' to glue together numerator factors for general interaction vertices. Another uses a natural characterization of polygons on surfaces to give a novel combinatorial description of all possible diagrams associated with arbitrary valence interactions. |
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| spellingShingle | Tropical Amplitudes For Colored Lagrangians Arkani-Hamed, Nima Figueiredo, Carolina Frost, Hadleigh Salvatori, Giulio High Energy Physics - Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Recently a new formulation for scattering amplitudes in Tr($Φ^3$) theory has been given based on simple combinatorial ideas in the space of kinematic data. This allows all-loop integrated amplitudes to be expressed as ''curve integrals'' defined using tropical building blocks - the ''headlight functions''. This paper shows how the formulation extends to the amplitudes of more general Lagrangians. We will present a number of different ways of introducing tropical ''numerator functions'' that allow us to describe general Lagrangian interactions. The simplest family of these ''tropical numerators'' computes the amplitudes of interesting Lagrangians with infinitely many interactions. We also describe methods for tropically formulating the amplitudes for general Lagrangians. One uses a variant of ''Wick contraction'' to glue together numerator factors for general interaction vertices. Another uses a natural characterization of polygons on surfaces to give a novel combinatorial description of all possible diagrams associated with arbitrary valence interactions. |
| title | Tropical Amplitudes For Colored Lagrangians |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06719 |