English

Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-10-27 v1

Abstract

We construct a twistor space action for N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and show that it is equivalent to its four dimensional spacetime counterpart at the level of perturbation theory. We compare our partition function to the original twistor-string proposal, showing that although our theory is closely related to string theory, it is free from conformal supergravity. We also provide twistor actions for gauge theories with N<4 supersymmetry, and show how matter multiplets may be coupled to the gauge sector.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0604040,
  title  = {Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space},
  author = {Rutger Boels and Lionel Mason and David Skinner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0604040},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

23 pages, no figures