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We study leading singularities of scattering amplitudes which are obtained as residues of an integral over a Grass mannian manifold. Were cursively do the transformation from twistors to momentum twistors and obtain an iterative formula for Yangian invariants that involves a succession of dualized twistor variables. This turns out to be useful in addressing the problem of classifying the residues of the Grassmannian. The iterative formula leads naturally to new coordinates on the Grassmannian in terms of which both composite and non-composite residues appear on an equal footing. We write down residue theorems in these new variables and classify the independent residues for some simple examples. These variables also explicitly exhibit the distinct solutions one expects to find for a given set of vanishing minors from Schubert calculus.
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Ashok, S.K., Dell’Aquila, E. On the classification of residues of the Grassmannian. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 97 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2011)097
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