Scattering equations: from projective spaces to tropical grassmannians
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Abstract
Abstract We introduce a natural generalization of the scattering equations, which connect the space of Mandelstam invariants to that of points on ℂℙ1, to higher-dimensional projective spaces ℂℙ k − 1. The standard, k = 2 Mandelstam invariants, s ab , are generalized to completely symmetric tensors $$ {\mathrm{s}}_{a_1{a}_2\dots {a}_k} $$ s a 1 a 2 … a k subject to a ‘massless’ condition $$ {\mathrm{s}}_{a_1{a}_2\dots {a}_{k-2}bb}=0 $$ s a 1 a 2 … a k − 2 b b = 0 and to ‘momentum conservation’. The scattering equations are obtained by constructing a potential function and computing its critical points. We mainly concentrate on the k = 3 case: study solutions and define the generalization of biadjoint scalar amplitudes. We compute all ‘biadjoint amplitudes’ for (k, n) = (3, 6) and find a direct connection to the tropical Grassmannian. This leads to the notion of k = 3 Feynman diagrams. We also find a concrete realization of the new kinematic spaces, which coincides with the spinor-helicity formalism for k = 2, and provides analytic solutions analogous to the MHV ones.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
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