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Construct a geometry whose facets correspond to individual perimeter poles and whose canonical form equals the wavefunction

Construct a higher-dimensional positive geometry for Tr(φ^3) cosmological wavefunctions whose facets are in one-to-one correspondence with individual perimeter poles (rather than pairs), such that the canonical form of this geometry directly reproduces the full wavefunction.

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Background

Graph-associahedra encode single diagrams, while cosmohedra unify all diagrams but associate pairs of perimeter poles to facets, necessitating a special prescription to obtain the wavefunction. By contrast, cosmological polytopes for single graphs have a facet per pole but do not obviously combine all diagrams in a single object.

The authors ask whether a bigger or different geometry could restore a direct facet-to-pole correspondence so that the canonical form alone produces the wavefunction, paralleling the amplitude/associahedron paradigm.

References

There are many open questions surrounding simply understanding these objects better. ... And is there a bigger geometry that associates individual poles -- not pairs of them -- with facets, so that the usual notion of canonical form would give the wavefunction?

Cosmohedra (2412.19881 - Arkani-Hamed et al., 27 Dec 2024) in Outlook