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We continue the study of positive geometries underlying the Grassmannian string integrals, which are a class of “stringy canonical forms”, or stringy integrals, over the positive Grassmannian mod torus action, G+(k, n)/T . The leading order of any such stringy integral is given by the canonical function of a polytope, which can be obtained using the Minkowski sum of the Newton polytopes for the regulators of the integral, or equivalently given by the so-called scattering-equation map. The canonical function of the polytopes for Grassmannian string integrals, or the volume of their dual polytopes, is also known as the generalized bi-adjoint ϕ3 amplitudes. We compute all the linear functions for the facets which cut out the polytope for all cases up to n = 9, with up to k=4 and their parity conjugate cases. The main novelty of our computation is that we present these facets in a manifestly gauge-invariant and cyclic way, and identify the boundary configurations of G+(k, n)/T corresponding to these facets, which have nice geometric interpretations in terms of n points in (k−1)-dimensional space. All the facets and configurations we discovered up to n = 9 directly generalize to all n, although new types are still needed for higher n.
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He, S., Ren, L. & Zhang, Y. Notes on polytopes, amplitudes and boundary configurations for Grassmannian string integrals. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 140 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2020)140
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