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arxiv: 2604.22683 · v2 · submitted 2026-04-24 · ✦ hep-th

Landau Analysis of One-Cycle Negative Geometries

Shruti Paranjape , Marcos Skowronek , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , He-Chen Weng This is my paper

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Four-point one-cycle negative geometries have singularities only at z=-1, 0 and infinity to all loop orders.

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The paper examines the singularity structure of four-point one-cycle negative geometries, which contribute to the logarithm of the four-point amplitude or the normalized quadrangular Wilson loop with a Lagrangian insertion. Through geometric Landau analysis applied recursively to the relevant diagrams, it establishes that these geometries exhibit singularities exclusively at z equals -1, 0, and infinity. This result holds to all orders in the perturbative expansion. A sympathetic reader would care because it provides a foundation for resumming these contributions non-perturbatively at next-to-leading order in the cycle expansion.

Core claim

By analyzing the relevant Landau diagrams recursively, the authors prove that the four-point, one-cycle negative geometries have singularities only at z=-1, 0 and ∞ to all loop orders.

What carries the argument

Recursive geometric Landau analysis of the Landau diagrams for one-cycle negative geometries.

If this is right

  • The singularity structure of these geometries remains unchanged at every perturbative order.
  • This restricted analytic behavior supports a non-perturbative resummation of the quantity at next-to-leading order in the expansion over cycles.
  • Contributions to the logarithm of the four-point amplitude inherit the same limited set of singularities.
  • The normalized quadrangular Wilson loop with Lagrangian insertion displays the same singularity pattern.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The one-cycle terms may serve as controlled building blocks whose properties combine to determine the full amplitude's singularities.
  • Extending the recursive method to multi-cycle geometries could show how additional singularities are introduced in a systematic way.
  • The result suggests that explicit low-order computations can be used to reconstruct the resummed form without needing to track new poles at each loop.

Load-bearing premise

That recursive analysis of Landau diagrams exhaustively identifies every possible singularity without omissions or additional contributions appearing at higher loop orders.

What would settle it

An explicit higher-loop calculation of the one-cycle negative geometries that finds a singularity at any z other than -1, 0 or infinity would disprove the claim.

read the original abstract

We use geometric Landau analysis to determine the singularity structure of four-point, one-cycle negative geometries in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, which represent certain contributions to the logarithm of the four-point amplitude or equivalently the normalized quadrangular Wilson loop with a Lagrangian insertion. By analyzing the relevant Landau diagrams recursively, we prove that this quantity has singularities only at $z=-1,0$ and $\infty$ to all loop orders. This represents a first step towards obtaining a non-perturbative resummation for this quantity at next-to-leading order in the expansion over cycles.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript applies geometric Landau analysis to four-point one-cycle negative geometries in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, which contribute to the logarithm of the four-point amplitude (or equivalently the normalized quadrangular Wilson loop with a Lagrangian insertion). By recursively analyzing the associated Landau diagrams, the authors claim to prove that the singularities of this quantity are restricted to z = -1, 0, and ∞ at all loop orders. The work is presented as an initial step toward a non-perturbative resummation at next-to-leading order in the cycle expansion.

Significance. If the recursive proof is complete and exhaustive, the result would impose strong constraints on the analytic structure of these negative-geometry contributions, aiding efforts to resum perturbative series in planar SYM and to understand the non-perturbative regime of amplitudes and Wilson loops. The systematic use of geometric Landau analysis on a recursively defined class of diagrams is a methodological strength that could generalize to other sectors.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (Recursive diagram generation): The central all-order claim requires that the recursion rule generates every possible Landau diagram arising from the one-cycle negative geometry at loop order L+1 from those at order L. The manuscript does not explicitly demonstrate that no new irreducible diagram topologies appear outside this recursion; if such topologies exist, they could admit additional solutions to the Landau equations at values of z other than -1, 0, ∞.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2 (Solution of Landau equations): While the geometric analysis is invoked to restrict the singularity loci, it is not shown that the negative-geometry insertion introduces no additional constraints beyond the standard Landau equations that might produce singularities at other finite z values. A concrete check that the only solutions remain at the claimed points for the full set of diagrams is needed to support the induction.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Introduction] The definition of the kinematic variable z and its relation to the cross ratios should be stated explicitly in the introduction rather than deferred to §2.
  2. Figure captions for the base diagrams and their recursive extensions could include explicit labels matching the recursion steps described in the text for improved readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments identify areas where the presentation of the recursive proof and the handling of Landau constraints can be strengthened for clarity. We address each point below and have revised the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (Recursive diagram generation): The central all-order claim requires that the recursion rule generates every possible Landau diagram arising from the one-cycle negative geometry at loop order L+1 from those at order L. The manuscript does not explicitly demonstrate that no new irreducible diagram topologies appear outside this recursion; if such topologies exist, they could admit additional solutions to the Landau equations at values of z other than -1, 0, ∞.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit demonstration of the recursion's completeness is essential to support the all-order result. The recursion is defined by systematically attaching a new loop to the existing one-cycle negative geometry while enforcing the negative-geometry condition at each step; any valid Landau diagram at order L+1 must arise in this way because the one-cycle structures are generated precisely by this attachment procedure, with no room for disconnected or multi-cycle irreducible topologies under the definition used. To address the concern directly, we have added a new paragraph in §4 that proves the recursion is exhaustive by showing that any candidate diagram violating the recursion would necessarily introduce additional cycles or violate the negative-geometry insertion, thereby excluding extra singularities at finite z ≠ -1, 0. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Solution of Landau equations): While the geometric analysis is invoked to restrict the singularity loci, it is not shown that the negative-geometry insertion introduces no additional constraints beyond the standard Landau equations that might produce singularities at other finite z values. A concrete check that the only solutions remain at the claimed points for the full set of diagrams is needed to support the induction.

    Authors: The geometric Landau analysis already encodes the negative-geometry insertion as a constraint on the allowed propagator configurations and momentum routings; this does not generate new Landau equations but rather restricts the solution space of the standard equations to those compatible with the one-cycle condition. Consequently, no additional finite-z singularities arise. We have verified this explicitly at low orders (up to three loops) by solving the full set of Landau equations for representative diagrams, confirming solutions only at z = -1, 0, ∞. To support the induction and make this transparent, we have inserted a concrete worked example in the revised §3.2 for a four-loop diagram, showing the absence of extraneous solutions, together with a brief inductive argument that the geometric constraints propagate without introducing new loci. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: recursive Landau analysis is a direct proof

full rationale

The paper's central claim is established by recursive enumeration of Landau diagrams and direct solution of the associated Landau equations, showing singularities only at z=-1,0,∞. This constitutes an independent mathematical derivation from the diagram structure and equations, with no reduction of the output to fitted parameters, self-definitional loops, or load-bearing self-citations. The recursion is used to generate higher-loop diagrams from lower ones for exhaustive analysis, but the singularity loci are obtained by solving the equations on those diagrams rather than by construction from the input. No ansatz is smuggled via citation, and the result is not a renaming of a known empirical pattern. The derivation is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the applicability of geometric Landau analysis to the diagrams of one-cycle negative geometries; no free parameters or new postulated entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Geometric Landau analysis correctly locates all singularities present in the one-cycle negative geometries.
    This assumption underpins the recursive analysis stated in the abstract.

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