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Supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-29 v1

Abstract

A new ambitwistor string is constructed based on a ten-dimensional supertwistor model for the massless superparticle. Although covariant quantization is complicated by reducibility issues, a light-cone gauge analysis can be easily performed. We show that with this analysis, this supertwistor ambitwistor string is equivalent to the RNS ambitwistor string in light-cone gauge. In order to make the comparison, we develop the light-cone gauge analysis of the RNS ambitwistor string which has some novel features in terms of its expression of the scattering equations through interaction point operators.

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@article{arxiv.1908.06899,
  title  = {Supertwistor description of ambitwistor strings},
  author = {Nathan Berkovits and Max Guillen and Lionel Mason},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06899},
  year   = {2020}
}

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18 pages

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