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The story of positive geometry of massless scalar theories was pioneered in [1] in the context of bi-adjoint ϕ3 theories. Further study proposed that the positive geometry for a generic massless scalar theory with polynomial interaction is a class of polytopes called accordiohedra [2]. Tree-level planar scattering amplitudes of the theory can be obtained from a weighted sum of the canonical forms of the accordiohedra. In this paper, using results of the recent work [3], we show that in theories with polynomial interactions all the weights can be determined from the factorization property of the accordiohedron. We also extend the projective recursion relations introduced in [4, 5] to these theories. We then give a detailed analysis of how the recursion relations in ϕp theories and theories with polynomial interaction correspond to projective triangulations of accordiohedra. Following the very recent development [6] we also extend our analysis to one-loop integrands in the quartic theory.
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John, R.R., Kojima, R. & Mahato, S. Weights, recursion relations and projective triangulations for positive geometry of scalar theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 37 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2020)037
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