Stratifying on-shell cluster varieties: the geometry of non-planar on-shell diagrams

Authors

Jacob L. Bourjaily, University of Copenhagen
Sebastian Franco, CUNY City CollegeFollow
Danielle Galloni, I.N.F.N. Sezione di Torino
Congkao Wen, I.N.F.N. Sezione di Roma

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-3-2016

Abstract

The correspondence between on-shell diagrams in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and cluster varieties in the Grassmannian remains largely unexplored beyond the planar limit. In this article, we describe a systematic program to survey such `on-shell varieties', and use this to provide a complete classification in the case of G(3; 6). In particular, we find exactly 24 top-dimensional varieties and 10 co-dimension one varieties in G(3; 6) | up to parity and relabeling of the external legs. We use this case to illustrate some of the novelties found for non-planar varieties relative to the case of positroids, and describe some of the features that we expect to hold more generally.

Comments

This article was originally published in the Journal of High Energy Physics, available at doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2016)003.

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