# Scattering Equations: From Projective Spaces to Tropical Grassmannians

## TL;DR

This paper generalizes scattering equations to higher-dimensional projective spaces, explores their solutions, and connects them to tropical Grassmannians, introducing new kinematic spaces and Feynman diagram analogs.

## Contribution

It introduces a higher-dimensional generalization of scattering equations, analyzes solutions for the $k=3$ case, and links biadjoint amplitudes to tropical Grassmannians.

## Key findings

- Computed all biadjoint amplitudes for (k,n)=(3,6)
- Established a connection between solutions and tropical Grassmannians
- Defined new kinematic spaces matching spinor-helicity formalism for k=2

## Abstract

We introduce a natural generalization of the scattering equations, which connect the space of Mandelstam invariants to that of points on ${\mathbb{CP}^1}$, to higher-dimensional projective spaces $\mathbb{CP}^{k-1}$. The standard, $k=2$ Mandelstam invariants, $s_{ab}$, are generalized to completely symmetric tensors $\textsf{s}_{a_1a_2\ldots a_k}$ subject to a `massless' condition $\textsf{s}_{a_1a_2\cdots a_{k-2}\,b\,b}=0$ and to `momentum conservation'. The scattering equations are obtained by constructing a potential function and computing its critical points. We mainly concentrate on the $k=3$ case: study solutions and define the generalization of biadjoint scalar amplitudes. We compute all `biadjoint amplitudes' for $(k,n)=(3,6)$ and find a direct connection to the tropical Grassmannian. This leads to the notion of $k=3$ Feynman diagrams. We also find a concrete realization of the new kinematic spaces, which coincides with the spinor-helicity formalism for $k=2$, and provides analytic solutions analogous to the MHV ones.