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Faces of cosmological polytopes

Kühne, Lukas
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Monin, Leonid  
2025
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (D) Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions

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.

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research article
DOI
10.4171/aihpd/192
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105010904113

Author(s)
Kühne, Lukas

Universität Bielefeld

Monin, Leonid  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025

Published in
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (D) Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions
Volume

12

Issue

3

Start page

445

End page

461

Subjects

lattice polytopes

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positive geometry

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wavefunction of the universe

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
MATH-GE  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

German Research Foundation

SFB-TRR 358/1 2023 – 491392403

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July 29, 2025
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