Published February 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Supersymmetric gauge theories in twistor space

  • 1. Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24-29 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LP (United Kingdom)

Description

We construct a twistor space action for N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory and show that it is equivalent to its four dimensional spacetime counterpart at the level of perturbation theory. We compare our partition function to the original twistor-string proposal, showing that although our theory is closely related to string theory, it is free from conformal supergravity. We also provide twistor actions for gauge theories with N<4 supersymmetry, and show how matter multiplets may be coupled to the gauge sector

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2
Journal Issue
2007
Journal Page Range
p. 014
ISSN
1126-6708