Planar matrices and arrays of Feynman diagrams

Abstract

Recently, planar collections of Feynman diagrams were proposed by Borges and one of the authors as the natural generalization of Feynman diagrams for the computation of k = 3 biadjoint amplitudes. Planar collections are one-dimensional arrays of metric trees satisfying an induced planarity and compatibility condition. In this work, we introduce planar matrices of Feynman diagrams as the objects that compute k = 4 biadjoint amplitudes. These are symmetric matrices of metric trees satisfying compatibility conditions. We introduce two notions of combinatorial bootstrap techniques for finding collections from Feynman diagrams and matrices from collections. As applications of the first, we find all 693, 13 612 and 346 710 collections for (k, n) = (3, 7), (3, 8) and (3, 9), respectively. As applications of the second kind, we find all 90 608 and 30 659 424 planar matrices that compute (k, n) = (4, 8) and (4, 9) biadjoint amplitudes, respectively. As an example of the evaluation of matrices of Feynman diagrams, we present the complete form of the (4, 8) and (4, 9) biadjoint amplitudes. We also start a study of higher-dimensional arrays of Feynman diagrams, including the combinatorial version of the duality between (k, n) and (n − k, n) objects.