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Main Authors: Ardila-Mantilla, Federico, Arkani-Hamed, Nima, Figueiredo, Carolina, Vazão, Francisco
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03425
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author Ardila-Mantilla, Federico
Arkani-Hamed, Nima
Figueiredo, Carolina
Vazão, Francisco
author_facet Ardila-Mantilla, Federico
Arkani-Hamed, Nima
Figueiredo, Carolina
Vazão, Francisco
contents The cosmohedron was recently proposed as a polytope underlying the cosmological wavefunction for $\text{Tr}(Φ^3)$ theory. Its faces were conjectured to be in bijection with Matryoshkas, which are obtained from a subdivision of a polygon by sequentially wrapping groups of polygons into larger polygons. In this paper we prove the correctness of this construction, and elucidate its combinatorial structure. Cosmohedra generalize to a wider class of $\mathcal{X}$ in $Y$ polytopes, where we chisel a polytope from the family $\mathcal{X}$ at each vertex of a polytope $Y$. We sketch a new application of these chiseled polytopes to the physics of ultraviolet divergences in loop-integrated Feynman amplitudes.
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spellingShingle Combinatorics of the Cosmohedron
Ardila-Mantilla, Federico
Arkani-Hamed, Nima
Figueiredo, Carolina
Vazão, Francisco
Combinatorics
High Energy Physics - Theory
The cosmohedron was recently proposed as a polytope underlying the cosmological wavefunction for $\text{Tr}(Φ^3)$ theory. Its faces were conjectured to be in bijection with Matryoshkas, which are obtained from a subdivision of a polygon by sequentially wrapping groups of polygons into larger polygons. In this paper we prove the correctness of this construction, and elucidate its combinatorial structure. Cosmohedra generalize to a wider class of $\mathcal{X}$ in $Y$ polytopes, where we chisel a polytope from the family $\mathcal{X}$ at each vertex of a polytope $Y$. We sketch a new application of these chiseled polytopes to the physics of ultraviolet divergences in loop-integrated Feynman amplitudes.
title Combinatorics of the Cosmohedron
topic Combinatorics
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03425