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We conjecture that every rational Yangian invariant in \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 SYM theory satisfies a recently introduced notion of cluster adjacency. We provide evidence for this conjecture by using the Sklyanin Poisson bracket on Gr(4, n) to check numerous examples.
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Mago, J., Schreiber, A., Spradlin, M. et al. Yangian invariants and cluster adjacency in \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 Yang-Mills. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 99 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2019)099
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