Antipodal Self-Duality for Generalized Fishnets from Integrability

Abstract

Antipodal self-duality (ASD) is a remarkable property that relates an amplitude to itself, after performing a suitable kinematic map and reversing the letters of the symbol (more precisely, acting with the antipode of the Hopf algebra of multiple polylogarithms). ASD has been seen in only one process in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, and its physical origin is unknown, motivating a search for ASD in other contexts. Recently, ASD was found to hold for square fishnet integrals in a strongly-deformed version of planar $\mathcal{N}=4$. In this paper, we investigate the properties of polynomials in ladder integrals under the ASD transformation that leaves the square fishnet invariant. Our basic building blocks are determinants of certain matrices of ladder integrals, that are labeled by partitions or Young diagrams, and automatically obey the Steinmann relations. We employ integrability-based representations of such determinants, which are essentially matrix-model integrals, and the theory of symmetric polynomials to find many more ASD quantities -- linear combinations of determinants whose coefficients are expressed using the combinatorics of partitions. As a byproduct, we provide an alternate proof that square fishnet integrals obey ASD.