Parity invariance for strings in twistor space

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2004.V8.N5.A1MaRDI QIDQ2493539zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edward Witten

Publication date 20 June 2006

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0403199

zbMATH Keywords

gluon scattering amplitudeparitytwistor space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Nuclear physics (81V35)

Abstract: Topological string theory with twistor space as the target makes visible some otherwise difficult to see properties of perturbative Yang-Mills theory. But left-right symmetry, which is obvious in the standard formalism, is highly unclear from this point of view. Here we prove that tree diagrams computed from connected $D$-instanton configurations are parity-symmetric. The main point in the proof also works for loop diagrams.

Review text

The computation of scattering amplitudes in perturbative Yang-Mills theory simplifies when formulated in a twistor space. Recent studies [\textit{E.\ Witten}, Commun. Math. Phys. 252, No. 1--3, 189--258 (2004; Zbl 1105.81061), hep-th/0312171; \textit{F.\ Cachazo, P.\ Svrcek} and \textit{E.\ Witten}, JHEP 0410:077 (2004), hep-th/0409245] have extended earlier results [\textit{S.\ Parke} and \textit{T.\ Taylor}, Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.\ 56, 2459 (1986); \textit{F.\ Behrends} and \textit{W.\ Giele}, Nucl.\ Phys.\ B306, 759 (1988)] in this direction. However, the obvious left-right symmetry (parity invariance) of the theory is obscure in this formalism. It is shown in the present paper that the amplitudes in twistor space are parity invariant: The amplitude of \(p\) positive and \(q\) negative helicity gluons is given as an integral in which the integration region is symmetric under the exchange of \(p\) and \(q\). At tree level, it is further proved that the measure is also symmetric under the interchange.

Recommendations

• Perturbative gauge theory as a string theory in twistor space
• Yangian in the twistor string
• Complete equivalence between gluon tree amplitudes in twistor string theory and in gauge theory
• Lectures on twistor string theory and perturbative Yang-Mills theory
• Strings in twistor superspace and mirror symmetry

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• Computation of contour integrals on \( \mathcal{M}_{0,n} \)
• CHY-construction of planar loop integrands of cubic scalar theory
• \(\Lambda\) scattering equations
• Scattering equations, twistor-string formulas and double-soft limits in four dimensions
• Polynomial reduction and evaluation of tree- and loop-level CHY amplitudes
• Collinear limits beyond the leading order from the scattering equations
• Scattering equations: real solutions and particles on a line
• Chiral splitting and \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) Einstein-Yang-Mills tree amplitudes in 4d
• Space-time CFTs from the Riemann sphere
• Bootstrapping solutions of scattering equations
• Gravitational scattering in the high-energy limit
• Einstein-Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes from scattering equations
• A worldsheet theory for supergravity
• Infrared behaviour of the one-loop scattering equations and supergravity integrands
• The S matrix of 6D super Yang-Mills and maximal supergravity from rational maps
• Elimination and recursions in the scattering equations
• Celestial \(w_{1+\infty}\) symmetries from twistor space
• Supersymmetric S-matrices from the worldsheet in 10 \& 11d
• Recursion and worldsheet formulae for 6d superamplitudes
• Einstein supergravity and new twistor string theories
• Scattering equations, generating functions and all massless five point tree amplitudes
• Soft theorems from conformal field theory
• Scattering equations and matrices: from Einstein to Yang-Mills, DBI and NLSM
• New ambitwistor string theories
• Gravity with a cosmological constant from rational curves
• An algebraic approach to the scattering equations
• On tree amplitudes of supersymmetric Einstein-Yang-Mills theory
• Black hole formation and classicalization in ultra-Planckian 2 N scattering
• (0,2) Gauged linear sigma model on supermanifold
• Twistor-strings, Grassmannians and leading singularities
• Unification of twistors and Ramond vectors
• An ambitwistor Yang-Mills Lagrangian
• Conformal higher spin theory and twistor space actions
• A direct proof of BCFW recursion for twistor-strings
• Unification of residues and Grassmannian dualities
• Gluon scattering on self-dual radiative gauge fields
• Gravity from holomorphic discs and celestial \(Lw_{1+\infty}\) symmetries
• Multi-Regge kinematics and the scattering equations
• A combinatoric shortcut to evaluate CHY-forms
• Conformal field theories in six-dimensional twistor space
• The KLT kernel in twistor space
• From twistor actions to MHV diagrams
• Comments on minitwistors and the celestial supersphere
• One-loop gauge theory amplitudes in \(N=4\) super Yang-Mills from MHV vertices
• (Non)-supersymmetric marginal deformations from twistor string theory

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