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Kinematic Flow for Banana Loops and Unparticles

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We extend kinematic flow to momentum-integrated loop-level cosmological correlators, focusing on banana loops of conformally coupled scalars in power-law cosmologies and, in de Sitter, on arbitrary mixtures of massless and conformally coupled scalars. Exploiting their dual description as tree-level exchanges of unparticles, we show that the associated correlators are described by a finite set of master integrals obeying a first-order system of differential equations. The corresponding basis is constructed from tubings of marked graphs and is distinguished by the appearance of nested tubes and an arborescence ordering of the vertices. We derive the connection matrices from four combinatorial rules -- activation, merger, swap, and copy. The last two are unique to unparticle exchanges: they induce richer mixing among basis functions and introduce new kinematic letters. Our framework extends systematically to arbitrarily complicated configurations, including necklace diagrams, and establishes unparticle exchange as a distinct class of kinematic flow.

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An Alternative Viewpoint on Kinematic Flow from Tubing Splitting

hep-th · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · novelty 3.0

Reversing the direction of tubing evolution yields splitting rules that reproduce the kinematic flow differential equations at tree level and suggest time emerges from kinematic space in conformally coupled scalar models and tr phi^3 theory.

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  • An Alternative Viewpoint on Kinematic Flow from Tubing Splitting hep-th · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 72 · internal anchor

    Reversing the direction of tubing evolution yields splitting rules that reproduce the kinematic flow differential equations at tree level and suggest time emerges from kinematic space in conformally coupled scalar models and tr phi^3 theory.