Thesis
Polytopes, scattering amplitudes, and cohomology
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We introduce a new definition of abstract polytope in any dimension and answer the question of defining and calculating its area. The entire discussion is motivated by studying the expressions arising from super-BCFW recursion on tree-level, n-point NMHV amplitudes in the planar limit of N=4 Super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. It has recently been discovered that such expressions should be interpreted as volumes of complex projective polytopes in some sense, and here we give...
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+ Hodges, A
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Mathematical Institute
Role:
Supervisor
+ Penrose, R
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Mathematical Institute
Role:
Supervisor
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- MSc by Research
- Level of award:
- Masters
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:9421
- Deposit date:
- 2014-11-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Enciso, M
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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- This thesis is not currently available in ORA.
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