Supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings
Abstract A new ambitwistor string is constructed based on a ten-dimensional super-twistor model for the massless superparticle. Although covariant quantization is complicated by reducibility issues, a light-cone gauge analysis can be easily performed. We show that with this analysis, this supertwist...
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| description | Abstract A new ambitwistor string is constructed based on a ten-dimensional super-twistor model for the massless superparticle. Although covariant quantization is complicated by reducibility issues, a light-cone gauge analysis can be easily performed. We show that with this analysis, this supertwistor ambitwistor string is equivalent to the RNS ambitwistor string in light-cone gauge. In order to make the comparison, we develop the light-cone gauge analysis of the RNS ambitwistor string which has some novel features in terms of its expression of the scattering equations through interaction point operators. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4fdc6972cda84df387f2bdae5ee1d82b2022-12-21T19:37:11ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792020-01-012020112010.1007/JHEP01(2020)020Supertwistor description of ambitwistor stringsNathan Berkovits0Max Guillen1Lionel Mason2ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Reserch, Instituto de Física Teórica, UNESP-Universidade Estadual PaulistaICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Reserch, Instituto de Física Teórica, UNESP-Universidade Estadual PaulistaMathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles BuildingAbstract A new ambitwistor string is constructed based on a ten-dimensional super-twistor model for the massless superparticle. Although covariant quantization is complicated by reducibility issues, a light-cone gauge analysis can be easily performed. We show that with this analysis, this supertwistor ambitwistor string is equivalent to the RNS ambitwistor string in light-cone gauge. In order to make the comparison, we develop the light-cone gauge analysis of the RNS ambitwistor string which has some novel features in terms of its expression of the scattering equations through interaction point operators.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2020)020BRST QuantizationConformal Field TheorySupergravity ModelsSuperstrings and Heterotic Strings |
| spellingShingle | Nathan Berkovits Max Guillen Lionel Mason Supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings Journal of High Energy Physics BRST Quantization Conformal Field Theory Supergravity Models Superstrings and Heterotic Strings |
| title | Supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings |
| title_full | Supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings |
| title_fullStr | Supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings |
| title_short | Supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings |
| title_sort | supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings |
| topic | BRST Quantization Conformal Field Theory Supergravity Models Superstrings and Heterotic Strings |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2020)020 |
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