research article
Faces of cosmological polytopes
A cosmological polytope is a lattice polytope introduced by Arkani-Hamed, Benin-casa, and Postnikov in their study of the wavefunction of the universe in a class of cosmological models. More concretely, they construct a cosmological polytope for any Feynman diagram, i.e., an undirected graph. In this paper, we initiate a combinatorial study of these polytopes. We give a complete description of their faces, identify minimal faces that are not simplices and compute the number of faces in specific instances. In particular, we give a recursive description of the f-vector of cosmological polytopes of trees.
Type
research article
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-105010904113
Author(s)
Kühne, Lukas
Universität Bielefeld
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Date Issued
2025
Volume
12
Issue
3
Start page
445
End page
461
Editorial or Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
Written at
EPFL
EPFL units
Available on Infoscience
July 29, 2025
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