Self-dual supergravity and twistor theory

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/24/24/010zbMATH Open1197.83109arXiv0705.1422OpenAlexW2083597958MaRDI QIDQ5434722FDOQ5434722

Authors: Martin Wolf 

Publication date: 9 January 2008

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By generalizing and extending some of the earlier results derived by Manin and Merkulov, a twistor description is given of four-dimensional N-extended (gauged) self-dual supergravity with and without cosmological constant. Starting from the category of (4|4N)-dimensional complex superconformal supermanifolds, the categories of (4|2N)-dimensional complex quaternionic, quaternionic Kaehler and hyper-Kaehler right-chiral supermanifolds are introduced and discussed. We then present a detailed twistor description of these types of supermanifolds. In particular, we construct supertwistor spaces associated with complex quaternionic right-chiral supermanifolds, and explain what additional supertwistor data allows for giving those supermanifolds a hyper-Kaehler structure. In this way, we obtain a supersymmetric generalization of Penrose's nonlinear graviton construction. We furthermore give an alternative formulation in terms of a supersymmetric extension of LeBrun's Einstein bundle. This allows us to include the cases with nonvanishing cosmological constant. We also discuss the bundle of local supertwistors and address certain implications thereof. Finally, we comment on a real version of the theory related to Euclidean signature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1422

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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) Supergravity (83E50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50)

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