Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space
We construct a twistor space action for N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and show that it is equivalent to its four dimensional spacetime counterpart at the level of perturbation theory. We compare our partition function to the original twistor-string proposal, showing that although our theory is closely...
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| author | Boels, R Mason, L Skinner, D |
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| description | We construct a twistor space action for N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and show that it is equivalent to its four dimensional spacetime counterpart at the level of perturbation theory. We compare our partition function to the original twistor-string proposal, showing that although our theory is closely related to string theory, it is free from conformal supergravity. We also provide twistor actions for gauge theories with N<4 supersymmetry, and show how matter multiplets may be coupled to the gauge sector. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:770abd2d-df78-4140-97d6-74c396fa87272022-03-26T20:20:30ZSupersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor SpaceJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:770abd2d-df78-4140-97d6-74c396fa8727Symplectic Elements at Oxford2006Boels, RMason, LSkinner, DWe construct a twistor space action for N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and show that it is equivalent to its four dimensional spacetime counterpart at the level of perturbation theory. We compare our partition function to the original twistor-string proposal, showing that although our theory is closely related to string theory, it is free from conformal supergravity. We also provide twistor actions for gauge theories with N<4 supersymmetry, and show how matter multiplets may be coupled to the gauge sector. |
| spellingShingle | Boels, R Mason, L Skinner, D Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space |
| title | Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space |
| title_full | Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space |
| title_fullStr | Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space |
| title_full_unstemmed | Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space |
| title_short | Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space |
| title_sort | supersymmetric gauge theories in twistor space |
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