On supertwistors, the Penrose-Ward transform and N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2005.V9.N6.A2zbMATH Open1129.81082arXivhep-th/0405123MaRDI QIDQ2642835FDOQ2642835

Authors: Alexander D. Popov, Christian Sämann 

Publication date: 5 September 2007

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

Abstract: It was recently shown by Witten that B-type open topological string theory with the supertwistor space CP^{3|4} as a target space is equivalent to holomorphic Chern-Simons (hCS) theory on the same space. This hCS theory in turn is equivalent to self-dual N=4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory in four dimensions. We review the supertwistor description of self-dual and anti-self-dual N-extended SYM theory as the integrability of super Yang-Mills fields on complex (2|N)-dimensional superplanes and demonstrate the equivalence of this description to Witten's formulation. The equivalence of the field equations of hCS theory on an open subset of CP^{3|N} to the field equations of self-dual N-extended SYM theory in four dimensions is made explicit. Furthermore, we extend the picture to the full N=4 SYM theory and, by using the known supertwistor description of this case, we show that the corresponding constraint equations are (gauge) equivalent to the field equations of hCS theory on a quadric in CP^{3|3}xCP^{3|3}.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0405123

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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