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The CHY construction naturally associates a vector in ℝ(n−3)! to every 2- regular graph with n vertices. Partial amplitudes in the biadjoint scalar theory are given by the inner product of vectors associated with a pair of cycles. In this work we study the problem of extending the computation to pairs of arbitrary 2-regular graphs. This requires the construction of compatible cycles, i.e. cycles such that their union with a 2-regular graph admits a Hamiltonian decomposition. We prove that there are at least (n − 2)!/4 such cycles for any 2-regular graph. We also find a connection to breakpoint graphs when the initial 2-regular graph only has double edges. We end with a comparison of the lower bound on the number of randomly selected cycles needed to generate a basis of ℝ(n−3)!, using the super Catalan numbers and our lower bound for compatible cycles.
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Cachazo, F., Yeats, K. & Yusim, S. Compatible cycles and CHY integrals. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 105 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2019)105
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