The ABCT Variety $V(3,n)$ is a Positive Geometry

The ABCT variety $V(3,n)$ is the image closure of the rational Veronese map from the Grassmannian $\mathrm{Gr}(2,n)$ to the Grassmannian $\mathrm{Gr}(3,n)$. It was studied by Arkani-Hamed–Bourjaily–Cachazo–Trnka in the context of tree-level scattering amplitudes arising in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and Witten’s twistor string theory. From this perspective, $V(3,n)$ is conjectured to be a positive geometry by Lam. In this paper, we study the combinatorial and algebraic geometry aspects of $V(3,n)$ and its subvarieties induced by iteratively taking analytic boundaries of the totally nonnegative part. We interpret these subvarieties as point configurations on ${\mathbb{P}}^2$ by the Gelfand-MacPherson correspondence. We construct a top-degree meromorphic form on $V(3,n)$ and show that it is a positive geometry, proving Lam’s conjecture.