Quantizing local holomorphic field theories on twistor space
High Energy Physics - Theory
2021-11-18 v1 Quantum Algebra
Abstract
This paper studies a class of four-dimensional quantum field theories which arise by quantizing local holomorphic field theories on twistor space. These theories have some remarkable properties: in particular, all correlation functions are rational functions. The two main examples are the model of Donaldson and Losev, Moore, Nekrasov and Shatashvili, and self-dual Yang-Mills theory. In each case, anomalies on twistor space must be cancelled by a Green-Schwarz mechanism, which introduces additional fields. For , this only works for and the additional field is gravitational. For self-dual Yang-Mills, this works for , , and the exceptional groups, and the additional field is an axion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2111.08879,
title = {Quantizing local holomorphic field theories on twistor space},
author = {Kevin J. Costello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.08879},
year = {2021}
}