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Twistor methods for AdS$_5$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-21 v2

Abstract

We consider the application of twistor theory to five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. The twistor space of AdS5_5 is the same as the ambitwistor space of the four-dimensional conformal boundary; the geometry of this correspondence is reviewed for both the bulk and boundary. A Penrose transform allows us to describe free bulk fields, with or without mass, in terms of data on twistor space. Explicit representatives for the bulk-to-boundary propagators of scalars and spinors are constructed, along with twistor action functionals for the free theories. Evaluating these twistor actions on bulk-to-boundary propagators is shown to produce the correct two-point functions.

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@article{arxiv.1607.03763,
  title  = {Twistor methods for AdS$_5$},
  author = {Tim Adamo and David Skinner and Jack Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.03763},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

24 pages, 4 figures. v2: typos fixed, published version

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