nLab surfaceology

Idea

An approach to calculating scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory using curve integrals.

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Related concepts

• amplituhedron

• associahedron

• Tr(ϕ³)

References

• Nima Arkani-Hamed, Hadleigh Frost, Giulio Salvatori, Pierre-Guy Plamondon, Hugh Thomas, All Loop Scattering As A Counting Problem [arXiv:2309.15913]

• Nima Arkani-Hamed, Hadleigh Frost, Giulio Salvatori, Pierre-Guy Plamondon, Hugh Thomas, All Loop Scattering For All Multiplicity [arXiv:2311.09284]

• Nima Arkani-Hamed, Qu Cao, Jin Dong, Carolina Figueiredo, Song He, Hidden zeros for particle/string amplitudes and the unity of colored scalars, pions and gluons [arXiv:2312.16282]

• Nima Arkani-Hamed, Qu Cao, Jin Dong, Carolina Figueiredo, Song He, Scalar-Scaffolded Gluons and the Combinatorial Origins of Yang-Mills Theory [arXiv:2401.00041]

• Nima Arkani-Hamed, Qu Cao, Jin Dong, Carolina Figueiredo, Song He, NLSM $\subset$ Tr($\phi^3$) [arXiv:2401.05483]

• Nima Arkani-Hamed, Carolina Figueiredo, Hadleigh Frost, Giulio Salvatori, Tropical Amplitudes For Colored Lagrangians [arXiv:2402.06719]

• Nima Arkani-Hamed, Carolina Figueiredo, Circles and Triangles, the NLSM and Tr($\phi^3$) [arXiv:2403.04826]

• Nima Arkani-Hamed, Carolina Figueiredo, All-order splits and multi-soft limits for particle and string amplitudes [arXiv:2405.09608]

• Shounak De, Andrzej Pokraka, Marcos Skowronek, Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich, Surfaceology for Colored Yukawa Theory, Journel of High Energy Physics 2024, 160 (2024). [doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2024)160, arXiv:2406.04411]

Journalistic coverage includes

• Charlie Wood, Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time, Quanta Magazine, Sep 25, 2024 (hosted at Simons Foundation) html.