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We provide an efficient recursive formula to compute the canonical forms of arbitrary d-dimensional simple polytopes, which are convex polytopes such that every vertex lies precisely on d facets. For illustration purposes, we explicitly derive recursive formulae for the canonical forms of Stokes polytopes, which play a similar role for a theory with quartic interaction as the Associahedron does in planar bi-adjoint ϕ3 theory. As a by-product, our formula also suggests a new way to obtain the full planar amplitude in ϕ4 theory by taking suitable limits of the canonical forms of constituent Stokes polytopes.
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Salvatori, G., Stanojevic, S. Scattering amplitudes and simple canonical forms for simple polytopes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 67 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)067
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