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20242026
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7 papers

hep-th2026

Cluster Algebras, Cube Roots, and Energy Correlators in SYM

Dani Kaufman, Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich +1

We provide a cluster algebraic construction of the cube root symbol letters that appear at leading order in the near-collinear expansion of the four-point energy correlator in $\ma…

hep-th2026

Symbol Alphabets in QCD and Flag Cluster Algebras

Andrzej Pokraka, Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich +1

The full 245-letter symbol alphabet for all planar massless two-loop six-point Feynman integrals was recently determined in arXiv:2412.19884 and arXiv:2501.01847. In a parallel mat…

hep-th2025

Split-Helicity Tree Amplitudes and Flag Cluster Algebras

Shruti Paranjape, Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich +1

Recent work has uncovered a connection between the symbol letters of general massless scattering and (permutations of) cluster variables of partial flag varieties. In this paper we…

hep-th2025

Hidden Zeros of the Cosmological Wavefunction

Shounak De, Shruti Paranjape, Andrzej Pokraka +2

Motivated by the recent discovery of hidden zeros in particle and string amplitudes, we characterize zeros of individual graph contributions to the cosmological wavefunction of a s…

hep-th2025

Large deformations of Tr() and the world at infinity

Shruti Paranjape, Marcos Skowronek, Marcus Spradlin +1

The amplitudes of the non-linear sigma model can be obtained from those of Tr() theory by sending the kinematic (Mandelstam) variables to infinity in a certain direction. In…

hep-th2025

From Feynman diagrams to the amplituhedron: a gentle review

Shounak De, Dmitrii Pavlov, Marcus Spradlin +1

In this article we review, for a mathematical audience, the computation of (tree-level) scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory in detail, in order to bridge the gap in understa…