Correlator polytopes
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Recently, “cosmohedra” have been introduced as polytopes underlying the cosmological wave function for conformally coupled Tr ( Φ 3 ) theory in Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker cosmologies, generalizing associahedra for flat space scattering amplitudes. In this paper we show that correlation functions are also directly captured by a new polytope—the . The combinatorics of correlation functions is an interesting blend of flat space scattering amplitudes and wave functions. This is reflected in the correlatron geometry, which is a one-higher dimensional polytope sandwiched between cosmohedron and associahedron facets. We provide an explicit embedding for the correlatron, which is a natural extension of the “shaving” picture for cosmohedra to one higher dimension. As a byproduct, we also define “graph correlahedra” as polytopes for the contribution to correlators from any fixed graph. We show how the canonical form of these polytopes directly computes the graph correlator, without the power of two weights seen in previous geometric formulations. Finally, we give a prescription for extracting the full correlator from the canonical form of the correlatron.
DOI: 10.1103/bq27-6d26
Authors: Carolina Figueiredo, Francisco Vazão
Institutions: Princeton University, Max Planck Institute for Physics
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4417466137