Twistor actions for integrable systems

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2021)140zbMATH Open1472.83063arXiv2011.05831OpenAlexW3202312464MaRDI QIDQ2237658FDOQ2237658

Authors: Robert F. Penna 

Publication date: 27 October 2021

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

Abstract: Many integrable systems can be reformulated as holomorphic vector bundles on twistor space. This is a powerful organizing principle in the theory of integrable systems. One shortcoming is that it is formulated at the level of the equations of motion. From this perspective, it is mysterious that integrable systems have Lagrangians. In this paper, we study a Chern-Simons action on twistor space and use it to derive the Lagrangians of some integrable sigma models. Our focus is on examples that come from dimensionally reduced gravity and supergravity. The dimensional reduction of general relativity to two spacetime dimensions is an integrable coset sigma model coupled to a dilaton and 2d gravity. The dimensional reduction of supergravity to two spacetime dimensions is an integrable coset sigma model coupled to matter fermions, a dilaton, and 2d supergravity. We derive Lax operators and Lagrangians for these 2d integrable systems using the Chern-Simons theory on twistor space. In the supergravity example, we use an extended setup in which twistor Chern-Simons theory is coupled to a pair of matter fermions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05831

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zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons theoriesdifferential and algebraic geometryintegrable field theoriessigma models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Supergravity (83E50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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