The Grassmannian and the twistor string: connecting all trees in \({\mathcal N} = 4\) SYM

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2011)038zbMath1214.81194arXiv1006.1899WikidataQ59822200 ScholiaQ59822200MaRDI QIDQ544303

Jacob L. Bourjaily, Anastasia Volovich, Jaroslav Trnka, Congkao Wen

Publication date: 14 June 2011

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1899

zbMATH Keywords

string duality; gauge symmetry; supersymmetric gauge theory; supersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

05C05: Trees

81T60: Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics

14M15: Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

81R25: Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory

14D21: Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory)

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