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In this paper we present the null string origin of the ambitwistor string. Classically, the null string is the tensionless limit of string theory, and so too is the Ambitwistor string. Both have as constraint algebra the Galilean Conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Eduardo Casali , Piotr Tourkine

We construct two matrix models from twistor string theory: one by dimensional reduction onto a rational curve and another one by introducing noncommutative coordinates on the fibres of the supertwistor space P^(3|4)->CP^1. We comment on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Olaf Lechtenfeld , Christian Saemann

A free superstring with chiral N=2 supersymmetry in six dimensions is proposed. It couples to a two-form gauge field with a self-dual field strength. Compactification to four dimensions on a two-torus gives a strongly coupled N=4…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 John H. Schwarz

Considered is the formulation for the superstring action in 6 and 10 dimensions involving supertwistor variables that appropriately generalize 4-dimensional Ferber supertwistors. Equations of motion and kappa-symmetry transformations in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. V. Uvarov

Interacting AdS_4 higher spin gauge theories with N \geq 1 supersymmetry so far have been formulated as constrained systems of differential forms living in a twistor extension of 4D spacetime. Here we formulate the minimal N=1 theory in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 J. Engquist , E. Sezgin , P. Sundell

We present a twistor description for null two-surfaces (null strings) in 4D Minkowski space-time. The Lagrangian density for a variational principle is taken as a surface-forming null bivector. The proposed formulation is reparametrization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-14 Kostyantin Ilyenko

A covariant closed superstring field theory, equivalent to classical ten-dimensional Type II supergravity, is presented. The defining conformal field theory is the ambitwistor string worldsheet theory of Mason and Skinner. This theory is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-17 R. A. Reid-Edwards , D. A. Riccombeni

There are at present two known string theories in $(2,2)$ dimensions. One of them is the well known $N=2$ string, and the other one is a more recently constructed $N=1$ spacetime supersymmetric string. They are both based on certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 H. Lu , C. N. Pope , E. Sezgin

The known Lorentz invariant string field theory for open N=2 strings is combined with a generalization of the twistor description of anti-self-dual (super) Yang-Mills theories. We introduce a Chern-Simons-type Lagrangian containing twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Olaf Lechtenfeld , Alexander D. Popov

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Rutger Boels , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

We propose various ways of adding mass terms to three-dimensional twistor string theory. We begin with a review of mini-twistor space--the reduction of D=4 twistor space to D=3. We adapt the two proposals for twistor string theory, Witten's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Dah-Wei Chiou , Ori J. Ganor , Yoon Pyo Hong , Bom Soo Kim , Indrajit Mitra

In this paper we construct a $(2,2)$ dimensional string theory with manifest $N=1$ spacetime supersymmetry. We use Berkovits' approach of augmenting the spacetime supercoordinates by the conjugate momenta for the fermionic variables. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Khviengia , H. Lu , C. N. Pope , E. Sezgin , X. J. Wang , K. W. Xu

Ambitwistor strings are chiral, infinite tension analogues of conventional string theory whose target space is the space of complex null geodesics and whose spectrum consists exclusively of massless states. At genus zero, these strings…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Tim Adamo , Eduardo Casali , David Skinner

We construct a manifestly $N=(4,0)$ world-sheet supersymmetric twistor-like formulation of the $D=6$ Green-Schwarz superstring, using the principle of double (target-space and world-sheet) Grassmann analyticity. The superstring action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Delduc , E. Ivanov , E. Sokatchev

We review the algebraic field theory based completely on a nonlinear generalization of the CR complex analiticity conditions to the noncommutative algebra of biquaternions. Any biquaternionic field possesses natural twistor structure and,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir V. Kassandrov

The (4,4) null superstring equations of motions and constraints on de Sitter space are given by using the harmonic superspace. These are solved explicitly by performing a perturbative expansion of the (4,4) superstring coordinates in powers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Assaoui , T. Lhallabi

We construct a string theory in three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space-time that is independent of the boundary metric. It is a topologically twisted theory of quantum gravity. We study string theories with an asymptotic N=2 superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-08 Songyuan Li , Jan Troost

String theory, specifically type-II superstring theory, can be formulated in any ten-dimensional signature. To facilitate the study of supergravity and superstring theories in this setting, we present a uniform construction of supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Louis Gall , Thomas Mohaupt

Presently integrability turned out to be the key property in the study of duality between superconformal gauge theories and strings in anti-de Sitter superspaces. Complexity of the study of integrable structure in string theory is caused by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-19 Dmytro V. Uvarov

Gauge-invariant twistor variables are found for the massive spinning particle with N-extended local worldline supersymmetry, in spacetime dimensions D=3,4,6. The twistor action is manifestly Lorentz invariant but the anticommuting spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Luca Mezincescu , Alasdair J. Routh , Paul K. Townsend