Supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)020MaRDI QIDQ2185254zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

BRST quantizationconformal field theorysupergravity 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) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

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.

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
• New ambitwistor string theories

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• The pure spinor superparticle and 10D super-Yang-Mills amplitudes
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