A six-dimensional view on twistors

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.12.033zbMATH Open1247.81194arXivhep-th/0410014OpenAlexW1965356496MaRDI QIDQ451567FDOQ451567

Authors: Annamaria Sinkovics, Erik Verlinde 

Publication date: 23 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the twistor formulation of the classical N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on the quadric submanifold of CP(3|3) X CP(3|3). We reformulate the twistor equations in six dimension, where the superconformal symmetry is manifest, and find a connection to complexified AdS5.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410014

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zbMATH Keywords

twistors\(N=4\) super-Yang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28)

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• On self-dual gauge fields

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• Topological gauge theory and twistors
• On twistors and conformal field theories from six dimensions
• Ambitwistor strings in six and five dimensions
• Marginal deformations of \(\mathcal N=4\) SYM from open/closed twistor strings
• Manifest superconformal covariance in six-dimensional \((2,0)\) theory
• On supertwistors, the Penrose-Ward transform and \({\mathcal N}=4\) super-Yang-Mills theory
• Twistor methods for \(\mathrm{AdS}_{5}\)
• Superconformal symmetry in linear sigma model on supermanifolds

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