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Kinematic Varieties for Massless Particles

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Speaker: 
Bernd Sturmfels
Affiliation: 
MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig
Date: 
Mon, 19/08/2024 - 11:00 - 12:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

We study algebraic varieties that encode the kinematic data for n massless particles in d-dimensional spacetime subject to momentum conservation.

Their coordinates are  spinor brackets, which we derive from the Clifford algebra associated to the Lorentz group.  This was proposed for d=5 in the recent physics literature. Our kinematic varieties are given by polynomial constraints on tensors with both symmetric and skew symmetric slices.

 

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