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Higher genus twistor spaces and the celestial torus

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-09-17 v1

Abstract

This paper studies novel four-dimensional integrable field theories that are deformations of self-dual Yang-Mills. They are engineered by considering holomorphic Chern-Simons and BF type theories on covers of twistor space obtained by pulling back the vector bundle O(1)2CP1\mathcal{O}(1)^2\to\mathbb{CP}^1 to hyperelliptic or elliptic curves. Compactifying to 4d yields an integrable theory, which in the examples I study, are determined to leading order. The form of the higher-order corrections are bootstrapped, and I argue that the index structure and coefficients of these terms are fixed by integrability. The celestial chiral algebras of these theories are shown to live on hyper-elliptic and elliptic curves, respectively. Symmetry reducing these integrable deformations to 2d yields an example of a hyperelliptic and elliptic integrable model governing a deformation of Hitchin's equations.

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@article{arxiv.2509.12486,
  title  = {Higher genus twistor spaces and the celestial torus},
  author = {Seraphim Jarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.12486},
  year   = {2025}
}

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49 pages, 8 figures

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