Supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)020zbMATH Open1434.83155arXiv1908.06899OpenAlexW2999766731WikidataQ126403532 ScholiaQ126403532MaRDI QIDQ2185254FDOQ2185254

Authors: Nathan J. Berkovits, Max Guillen, L. J. Mason 

Publication date: 4 June 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A new ambitwistor string is constructed based on a ten-dimensional supertwistor 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06899

Recommendations

• The SAGEX review on scattering amplitudes Chapter 6: Ambitwistor Strings and Amplitudes from the Worldsheet
• Twistor/ambitwistor strings and null-superstrings in spacetime of \(D=4\), \(10\) and \(11\) dimensions
• Ambitwistor strings in six and five dimensions
• Twistor string as tensionless superstring
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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryBRST quantizationsupergravity modelssuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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Cited In (9)

• On polarized scattering equations for superamplitudes of 11D supergravity and ambitwistor superstring
• Twistor/ambitwistor strings and null-superstrings in spacetime of \(D=4\), \(10\) and \(11\) dimensions
• One-loop integrand from generalised scattering equations
• A pure spinor twistor description of the \(D = 10\) superparticle
• The SAGEX review on scattering amplitudes Chapter 6: Ambitwistor Strings and Amplitudes from the Worldsheet
• Ambitwistor strings in six and five dimensions
• Taming the 11D pure spinor \(b\)-ghost
• A note on circle compactification of tensile ambitwistor string
• Green-Schwarz and pure spinor formulations of chiral strings

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