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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2014)091
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Supersymmetric gauge theory; Scattering Amplitudes
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- US Department of Energy [DE-FG02-91ER40688, DE-FG02-11ER41742]
- Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics
- Sloan Research Foundation
- NSF [DMS-1059129, DMS-1301776]
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
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In this paper we study motivic amplitudes - objects which contain all of the essential mathematical content of scattering amplitudes in planar SYM theory in a completely canonical way, free from the ambiguities inherent in any attempt to choose particular functional representatives. We find that the cluster structure on the kinematic configuration space Conf(n) (P-3) underlies the structure of motivic amplitudes. Specifically, we compute explicitly the coproduct of the two-loop seven-particle MHV motivic amplitude A(7,2)(M) and find that like the previously known six-particle amplitude, it depends only on certain preferred coordinates known in the mathematics literature as cluster chi-coordinates on Conf(n) (P-3). We also find intriguing relations between motivic amplitudes and the geometry of generalized associahedrons, to which cluster coordinates have a natural combinatoric connection. For example, the obstruction to A(7,2)(M) being expressible in terms of classical polylogarithms is most naturally represented by certain quadrilateral faces of the appropriate associahedron. We also find and prove the first known functional equation for the trilogarithm in which all 40 arguments are cluster chi-coordinates of a single algebra. In this respect it is similar to Abel's 5-term dilogarithm identity.
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