Amplituhedron
Amplituedro
- Date
- 2013 · confidence high
- Place
- Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- Jaroslav Trnka y Nima Arkani-Hamed
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
The amplituhedron is a geometric structure that simplifies the calculation of particle scattering amplitudes in certain quantum field theories, challenging the need for spacetime locality and unitarity.
What it led to
- simplified calculation of particle interactions
- new perspectives on locality and unitarity in theoretical physics
- development of positive Grassmannian geometry in physics
- boost to twistor string theory