An ambitwistor Yang-Mills Lagrangian

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2006.02.061zbMATH Open1247.81193arXivhep-th/0510262OpenAlexW1987154582MaRDI QIDQ454076FDOQ454076

L. J. Mason, D. Skinner

Publication date: 30 September 2012

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

Abstract: We introduce a Chern-Simons Lagrangian for Yang-Mills theory as formulated on ambitwistor space via the Ward, Isenberg, Yasskin, Green, Witten construction. The Lagrangian requires the selection of a codimension-2 Cauchy-Riemann submanifold which is naturally picked out by the choice of space-time reality structure and we focus on the choice of Euclidean signature. The action is shown to give rise to a space-time action that is equivalent to the standard one, but has just cubic vertices. We identify the ambitwistor propagators and vertices and work out their corresponding expressions on space-time and momentum space. It is proposed that this formulation of Yang-Mills theory underlies the recursion relations of Britto, Cachazo, Feng and Witten and provides the generating principle for twistor diagrams for gauge theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0510262

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zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Mills theoryChern-Simons Lagrangian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Feynman diagrams (81T18)

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