Bruno's non-crossing chord diagram conjecture for phi^4 regions

Let nn be even, let x=(x0,cldots,xn3)cincmathbbRn2x=(x_0,cldots,x_{n-3})cincmathbb{R}^{n-2}, and define

H(x)=csuma=0n3xa+2csuma=0n4csumb=a+1n3(1)bacmin(xa,xa+1,cldots,xb).H(x)=csum_{a=0}^{n-3}x_a+2csum_{a=0}^{n-4}csum_{b=a+1}^{n-3}(-1)^{b-a}cmin(x_a,x_{a+1},cldots,x_b).

A non-crossing chord diagram is a perfect matching of n2n-2 ordered points, with chords cthetaabctheta_{ab} drawn without crossings. Bruno's conjecture. The regions contributing to Anϕ4A_n^{\phi^4}, namely the regions where H(x)=0H(x)=0, are in bijection with the set of all Cn/21C_{n/2-1} non-crossing chord diagrams. For the diagram containing cthetaabctheta_{ab} and, nested inside it, cthetacdctheta_{cd}, the corresponding region is specified by xa=xbx_a=x_b and xa=xb<xc=xdx_a=x_b<x_c=x_d.

These regions are precisely the polyhedral cones that contribute to the global Schwinger formula for the phi^4 amplitude. The source gives the conjecture as an aim of the paper; its resolution is not specified here.

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Bruno Giménez Umbert and Karen Yeats, “Φ^p Amplitudes from the Positive Tropical Grassmannian: Triangulations of Extended Diagrams”, arXiv:2403.17051 (2024).

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