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Massless and Massive Three Dimensional Super Yang-Mills Theory and Mini-Twistor String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v3

Abstract

We propose various ways of adding mass terms to three-dimensional twistor string theory. We begin with a review of mini-twistor space--the reduction of D=4 twistor space to D=3. We adapt the two proposals for twistor string theory, Witten's and Berkovits's, to D=3 super Yang-Mills theory. In Berkovits's model, we identify the enhanced R-symmetry. We then construct B-model topological string theories that, we propose, correspond to D=3 Yang-Mills theory with massive spinors and massive and massless scalars in the adjoint representation of the gauge group. We also analyze the counterparts of these constructions in Berkovits's model. Some of our constructions can be lifted to D=4, where infinitesimal mass terms correspond to VEVs of certain superconformal gravity fields.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0502076,
  title  = {Massless and Massive Three Dimensional Super Yang-Mills Theory and Mini-Twistor String Theory},
  author = {Dah-Wei Chiou and Ori J. Ganor and Yoon Pyo Hong and Bom Soo Kim and Indrajit Mitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0502076},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

69 pages; Typos corrected