Non-abelian tensor multiplet equations from twistor space

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Abstract: We establish a Penrose-Ward transform yielding a bijection between holomorphic principal 2-bundles over a twistor space and non-Abelian self-dual tensor fields on six-dimensional flat space-time. Extending the twistor space to supertwistor space, we derive sets of manifestly N=(1,0) and N=(2,0) supersymmetric non-Abelian constraint equations containing the tensor multiplet. We also demonstrate how this construction leads to constraint equations for non-Abelian supersymmetric self-dual strings.


From the conclusions: ``We started from twistor space \(P^6\) that underlies the description of self-dual 3-forms in six dimensions in terms of holomorphic abelian gerbes. We extended this twistorial description by considering holomorphic principal 2-bundles over \(P^6\) subject to certain triviality conditions. This led to a bijection between equivalence classes of such 2-bundles and gauge equivalence classes of solutions to higher gauge theory for a self-dual 3-form curvature. We then considered a supersymmetric extension \(P^{6|2n}\) of the twistor space \(P^6\). Here we derived a set of \({\mathcal N}=(n,0)\) supersymmetric non-abelian constraint equations on superspace that contain the tensor multiplet. By virtue of the Penrose-Ward transform, all solutions of these constraint equations were shown to be given by holomorphic principal 2-bundles over \(P^{6|2n}\). In that sense [the constraint equations] constitute a (classically) integrable theory of interacting 2-forms including scalars and fermions. From our twistor description of a higher gauge theory containing the tensor multiplet, we could directly derive a corresponding picture for non-abelian supersymmetric self-dual strings.



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