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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 WZW4WZW_4 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 WZW4WZW_4, this only works for G=SO(8)G = SO(8) and the additional field is gravitational. For self-dual Yang-Mills, this works for SU(2)SU(2), SU(3)SU(3), SO(8)SO(8) and the exceptional groups, and the additional field is an axion.

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@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}
}
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