@article {IOPORT.05909789, author = {Lechtenfeld, Olaf and Schwerdtfeger, Konrad and Th\"urigen, Johannes}, title = {$N=4$ multi-particle mechanics, WDVV equation and roots.}, year = {2011}, journal = {SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications [electronic only]}, volume = {7}, issn = {1815-0659}, pages = {Paper 023, 21 p., electronic only}, publisher = {Department of Applied Research, Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv}, doi = {10.3842/SIGMA.2011.023}, abstract = {Summary: We review the relation of $N=4$ superconformal multi-particle models on the real line to the WDVV equation and an associated linear equation for two prepotentials, $F$ and $U$. The superspace treatment gives another variant of the integrability problem, which we also reformulate as a search for closed flat Yang-Mills connections. Three- and four-particle solutions are presented. The covector ansatz turns the WDVV equation into an algebraic condition, for which we give a formulation in terms of partial isometries. Three ideas for classifying WDVV solutions are developed: ortho-polytopes, hypergraphs, and matroids. Various examples and counterexamples are displayed.}, identifier = {05909789}, }