Twistor transform in d dimensions and a unifying role for twistors
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0484 (United States)
- 2. Departamento de Fisica Teorica, University of Valencia and IFIC (CSIC-UVEG), 46100-Burjasot (Valencia) (Spain)
Description
Twistors in four dimensions d=4 have provided a convenient description of massless particles with any spin, and this led to remarkable computational techniques in Yang-Mills field theory. Recently it was shown that the same d=4 twistor provides also a unified description of an assortment of other particle dynamical systems, including special examples of massless or massive particles, relativistic or nonrelativistic, interacting or noninteracting, in flat space or curved spaces. In this paper, using 2T-physics as the primary theory, we derive the general twistor transform in d-dimensions that applies to all cases, and show that these more general twistor transforms provide d dimensional holographic images of an underlying phase space in flat spacetime in d+2 dimensions. Certain parameters, such as mass, parameters of spacetime metric, and some coupling constants, appear as moduli in the holographic image while projecting from d+2 dimensions to (d-1)+1 dimensions or to twistors. We also extend the concept of twistors to include the phase space of D-branes, and give the corresponding twistor transform. The unifying role for the same twistor that describes an assortment of dynamical systems persists in general, including D-branes. Except for a few special cases in low dimensions that exist in the literature, our twistors are new
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.064033;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0512348v5;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 73
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Journal Page Range
- p. 064033-064033.18
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37085883
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COUPLING CONSTANTS; DIMENSIONS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEMBRANES; PHASE SPACE; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; SPACE-TIME; SPIN; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SPACE
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2006 The American Physical Society