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amplituhedron

noun

Etymology

From amplitude + -hedron. Coined by Nima Arkani-Hamed and Jaroslav Trnka in 2013 and published in 2014 in an article in the Journal of High Energy Physics.

  1. derived from amplitūdō
  2. borrowed from amplitude
  3. suffixed as amplituhedron — “amplitude + hedron”

Definitions

  1. A mathematical structure which encodes the integrand of an amplitude in planar N=4 super…

    A mathematical structure which encodes the integrand of an amplitude in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, used in calculations of scattering amplitudes of particle interactions.

    • Meronym: twistor
    • The amplituhedron is not built out of spacetime and probabilities; these properties merely arise as consequences of the jewel's geometry.

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