Published July 20, 1992 | Version v1
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Harmonic space, self-dual Yang-Mills and the N=2 string

Creators

  • 1. Univ. Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv (Israel). Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences
  • 2. Univ. Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv (Israel). School of Physics and Astronomy

Description

The geometrical structure and the quantum properties of the recently proposed harmonic-space action describing self-dual Yang-Mills (SDYM) theory are analyzed. The geometrical structure that is revealed is closely related to the twistor construction of instanton solutions. The theory gets no quantum corrections and, despite having SDYM as its classical equation of motion, its S-matrix is trivial. It is therefore not the theory of the N=2 string. We also discuss the five-dimensional actions that have been proposed for SDYM. (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
379
Journal Issue
1/2
Journal Page Range
p. 121-142.
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
Netherlands
INIS RN
24003304
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ACTION INTEGRAL; CORRECTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; DUALITY; FEYNMAN DIAGRAM; FIELD EQUATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HARMONICS; INSTANTONS; LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; LORENTZ GROUPS; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MATRIX ELEMENTS; METRICS; PROPAGATOR; RIEMANN SPACE; S MATRIX; SECOND QUANTIZATION; SPECTRA; STRING MODELS; SU-2 GROUPS; TWISTOR THEORY; U-1 GROUPS; U-2 GROUPS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; YANG-MILLS THEORY
Descriptors DEC
DIAGRAMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATHEMATICS; MATRICES; OSCILLATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; POINCARE GROUPS; QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUASI PARTICLES; SPACE; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; U GROUPS