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Re:Particle physicists puzzle over a new duality by gfodor on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:29PM (#32309348)
Can a physicist comment on the impact of this to the work by Nima Arkani-Hamed et al on the Amplituhedron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron)?
Re:Particle physicists puzzle over a new duality by joe__f on Monday August 01, 2022 @03:02PM (#32310657)
Great question! This result is in the same area as the work on the amplituhedron. It's not immediately obvious to me that they are directly related, and I didn't see a reference to any amplituhedron papers in the citations of this paper. Dixon et al. have essentially discovered a new symmetry which the scattering amplitudes (of N=4 Super Yang-Mills) must obey, and new symmetries generally lead to deeper understanding of the theory. This symmetry should then also be somehow encoded in the amplituhedron description of the theory; I imagine people would look into this in the future.
Re:Particle physicists puzzle over a new duality by gfodor on Monday August 01, 2022 @07:21PM (#32313392)
Cool, thanks!