Published February 2007
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Journal article
Supersymmetric gauge theories in twistor space
Creators
- 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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38084091
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; MULTIPLETS; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; PERTURBATION THEORY; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE-TIME; STRING MODELS; SUPERGRAVITY; SUPERSYMMETRY; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; EVALUATION; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL; SYMMETRY; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES