Singularities of massless scattering and cluster algebras

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Main Authors: Bossinger, Lara, Drummond, James, Glew, Ross, Gürdoğan, Ömer, Wright, Rowan
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author Bossinger, Lara
Drummond, James
Glew, Ross
Gürdoğan, Ömer
Wright, Rowan
author_facet Bossinger, Lara
Drummond, James
Glew, Ross
Gürdoğan, Ömer
Wright, Rowan
contents Partial flag varieties arise in the context of massless scattering kinematics. They can be associated to both spinor-helicity variables and momentum twistor variables in two separate yet natural ways. Here we report on evidence at five and six points that the cluster algebras associated to these partial flag varieties contain information relevant to non-dual conformal massless scattering amplitudes and related observables. At five points both spinor-helicity and momentum twistor cluster structures capture similar information about symbol alphabets. At six points we demonstrate that the momentum twistor structure captures a larger subset of the alphabet compared to the spinor-helicity one. We also observe that the associated cluster structures correctly predict the appearance of certain triples of symbol letters related to cluster mutation relations.
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spellingShingle Singularities of massless scattering and cluster algebras
Bossinger, Lara
Drummond, James
Glew, Ross
Gürdoğan, Ömer
Wright, Rowan
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Partial flag varieties arise in the context of massless scattering kinematics. They can be associated to both spinor-helicity variables and momentum twistor variables in two separate yet natural ways. Here we report on evidence at five and six points that the cluster algebras associated to these partial flag varieties contain information relevant to non-dual conformal massless scattering amplitudes and related observables. At five points both spinor-helicity and momentum twistor cluster structures capture similar information about symbol alphabets. At six points we demonstrate that the momentum twistor structure captures a larger subset of the alphabet compared to the spinor-helicity one. We also observe that the associated cluster structures correctly predict the appearance of certain triples of symbol letters related to cluster mutation relations.
title Singularities of massless scattering and cluster algebras
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01015