Cluster algebras and the subalgebra constructibility of the seven-particle remainder function

Abstract We review various aspects of cluster algebras and the ways in which they appear in the study of loop-level amplitudes in planar N = 4 $$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. In particular, we highlight the different forms of cluster-algebraic structure that appear in this theory’s two-loop MHV amplitudes — considered as functions, symbols, and at the level of their Lie cobracket — and recount how the ‘nonclassical’ part of these amplitudes can be decomposed into specific functions evaluated on the A 2 or A 3 subalgebras of Gr(4, n). We then extend this line of inquiry by searching for other subalgebras over which these amplitudes can be decomposed. We focus on the case of seven-particle kinematics, where we show that the nonclassical part of the two-loop MHV amplitude is also constructible out of functions evaluated on the D 5 and A 5 subalgebras of Gr(4, 7), and that these decompositions are themselves decomposable in terms of the same A 4 function. These nested decompositions take an especially canonical form, which is dictated in each case by constraints arising from the automorphism group of the parent algebra.

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