Etymograph

English

amplituhedron

From amplitude + -hedron.

Formed from amplitude + -hedron

Latin amplus ‘large’

Latin amplitūdō ‘a wide extent’

Middle French amplitude

English amplitude

The story

Coined by Nima Arkani-Hamed and Jaroslav Trnka in 2013 and published in 2014 in an article in the Journal of High Energy Physics.

Today it means

noun A mathematical structure which encodes the integrand of an amplitude in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, used in calculations of scattering amplitudes of particle interactions.

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