Descrambling Amplitudes and Integration using Cluster Coordinates
Descrambling Amplitudes and Integration using Cluster Coordinates
- Event time: 2:00pm
- Event date: 14th March 2018
- Speaker: Dr Andrew McLeod (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Amplitudes in planar $N=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory exhibit a surprising amount of cluster-algebraic structure, the physical meaning of which remains largely obscure. After reviewing the various guises in which this structure has been observed, I will add a new set of observations to this collection of curiosities. In particular, I will present new and striking cluster-algebraic decompositions of (the most complicated parts of) two-loop seven- and eight-particle amplitudes in this theory, and will describe how cluster coordinates can even be used to tackle the problem of integration directly---making it possible to integrate some of the Feynman integrals that contribute to these high-point amplitudes.
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