Towards Amplituhedron via One-Dimensional Theory

Abstract

Inspired by the closed contour of momentum conservation in an interaction, we introduce an integrable one-dimensional theory that underlies some integrable models such as the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP)-hierarchy and the amplituhedron. In this regard, by defining the action and partition function of the presented theory, while introducing a perturbation, we obtain its scattering matrix (S-matrix) with Grassmannian structure. This Grassmannian corresponds to a chord diagram, which specifies the closed contour of the one-dimensional theory. Then, we extract a solution of the KP-hierarchy using the S-matrix of theory. Furthermore, we indicate that the volume of phase-space of the one-dimensional manifold of the theory is equal to a corresponding Grassmannian integral. Actually, without any use of supersymmetry, we obtain a sort of general structure in comparison with the conventional Grassmannian integral and the resulted amplituhedron that is closely related to the Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes in four dimensions. The proposed theory is capable to express both the tree- and loop-levels amplituhedron (without employing hidden particles) and scattering amplitude in four dimensions in the twistor space as particular cases.