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Supertwistor space for 6D maximal super Yang-Mills

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-03-13 v3

Abstract

6D maximal super Yang-Mills on-shell amplitudes are formulated in superspace using 6 dimensional twistors. The 3,4,5-point tree amplitudes are obtained by supersymmetrizing their bosonic counterparts and confirmed through the BCFW construction. In contrast to 4D this superspace is non-chiral, reflecting the fact that one cannot differentiate MHV from MHVˉ\bar{{\rm MHV}} in 6D. Combined with unitarity methods, this superspace should be useful for the study of multi-loop D dimensional maximal super Yang-Mills and gravity amplitudes. Furthermore, the non-chiral nature gives a natural framework for an off-shell construction. We show this by matching our result with off-shell D=4 N=4 super Yang-Mills amplitudes, expressed in projective superspace.

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@article{arxiv.0910.2688,
  title  = {Supertwistor space for 6D maximal super Yang-Mills},
  author = {Tristan Dennen and Yu-tin Huang and Warren Siegel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.2688},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 figures 28 pages. with better signs

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