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Supertwistor formulation for massless superparticle in $AdS_5\times S^5$ superspace

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-07-27 v4

Abstract

Starting with the first-order formulation of the massless superparticle model on the AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5 superbackground and presenting the momentum components tangent to AdS5AdS_5 and S5S^5 subspaces as bilinear combinations of the constrained SU(2)SU(2)-Majorana spinors allows to bring the superparticle's Lagrangian to the form quadratic in supertwistors. The SU(2,24)SU(2,2|4) supertwistors are assembled into a pair of SU(2)SU(2) doublets, one of which has even SU(2,2)SU(2,2) and odd SU(4)SU(4) components, while the other has odd SU(2,2)SU(2,2) and even SU(4)SU(4) components. They are subject to the first-class constraints that generate the psu(22)u(1)psu(2|2)\oplus u(1) gauge algebra. This justifies previously proposed group-theoretic definition of the AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5 supertwistors and allows to derive the incidence relations with the (1032)(10|32) supercoordinates of the AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5 superspace. Whenever superparticle moves within the AdS5AdS_5 subspace of the AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5 space-time, twistor formulation of its Lagrangian involves just one SU(2)SU(2) doublet of SU(2,24)SU(2,2|4) supertwistors with even SU(2,2)SU(2,2) and odd SU(4)SU(4) components. If in addition particle's 5-momentum is null, four first-class constraints which are the su(2)u(1)su(2)\oplus u(1) generators single out upon quantization the states of D=5D=5 N=8N=8 gauged supergravity multiplet in the superambitwistor formulation.

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@article{arxiv.1807.08318,
  title  = {Supertwistor formulation for massless superparticle in $AdS_5\times S^5$ superspace},
  author = {D. V. Uvarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.08318},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

24 pages, LaTeX; v4: in Sec.2.3 corrected wrong expressions for variations of supertwistors and Lagrange multipliers under gauge symmetries