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A study in 𝔾_(ℝ, ≥0): from the geometric case book of Wilson loop diagrams and SYM N=4

2 Mar 2018arXiv:1803.00958links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Susama Agarwala, Sian Fryer

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We study the geometry underlying the Wilson loop diagram approach to calculating scattering amplitudes in the gauge theory of Supersymmetric Yang Mills (SYM) N=4. By applying the tools developed to study total positivity in the real Grassmannian, we are able to systematically compute with all Wilson loop diagrams of a given size and find unexpected patterns and relationships between them. We focus on the smallest nontrivial multi-propagator case, consisting of 2 propagators on 6 vertices, and compute the positroid cells associated to each diagram and the homology of the subcomplex they generate in 𝔾_(ℝ, ≥0). We also verify in this case the conjecture that the spurious singularities of the volume functional {\em do} all cancel on the codimension 1 boundaries of these cells.

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