The component-count conjecture for the lifted scattering correspondence

Let C~(3,n,1)\widetilde{\rm C}(3,n,1) be the lifted scattering correspondence over the spinor-helicity variety X(3,n)X(3,n), and let C(3,n,1){\rm C}(3,n,1) be the corresponding scattering correspondence. The lifted correspondence comes with a map to X(3,n)X(3,n), and the involution referred to in the source acts on its birational components.

Component-count conjecture. The lifted scattering correspondence C~(3,n,1)\widetilde{\rm C}(3,n,1) decomposes into five irreducible components, with exactly one component whose map onto X(3,n)X(3,n) is not birational. Consequently, the scattering correspondence C(3,n,1){\rm C}(3,n,1) has three irreducible components, and the four birational components of the lifted correspondence become two components modulo the involution.

This predicts the irreducible-component structure of the scattering correspondence and distinguishes the unique non-birational component from the birational ones. The supplied text gives no evidence that the conjecture has been proved or disproved.

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Yassine El Maazouz, Anaëlle Pfister and Bernd Sturmfels, “Spinor-Helicity Varieties”, arXiv:2406.17331 (2025).

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