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We discuss chiral zero-rest-mass field equations on six-dimensional space-time from a twistorial point of view. Specifically, we present a detailed cohomological analysis, develop both Penrose and Penrose-Ward transforms, and analyse the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Christian Saemann , Martin Wolf

The double copy relates gauge and gravitational theories, with widespread application to quantum scattering amplitudes and classical perturbative results. It also connects exact classical solutions of Abelian gauge and gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Brian Kent , Aaron Zimmerman

The double copy is a much-studied relationship between gauge theory and gravity amplitudes. Recently, this was generalised to an infinite family of classical solutions to Einstein's equations, namely stationary Kerr-Schild geometries. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 A. Luna , R. Monteiro , D. O'Connell , C. D. White

There are a number of classical double copies, each providing a prescription for generating solutions to the Maxwell and scalar wave equations from exact solutions of Einstein's equations. Two such prescriptions are the Kerr-Schild and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Emma Albertini , Michael L. Graesser , Gabriel Herczeg

The Weyl double copy formalism, which relates the Weyl spinor with the square of the field strength, is studied in the context of Hassan-Rosen bigravity for stationary and time-dependent solutions. We consider the dyonic Kerr-Newman-(A)dS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Hugo García-Compeán , César I. Ramos

The double copy is a much-studied relationship between scattering amplitudes in gauge and gravity theories, that has subsequently been extended to classical field solutions. In nearly all previous examples, the graviton field is defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Nadia Bahjat-Abbas , Andrés Luna , Chris D. White

In three spacetime dimensions, (super)conformal geometry is controlled by the (super) Cotton tensor. We present a new duality transformation for N-extended supersymmetric theories formulated in terms of the linearised super-Cotton tensor or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-05 Sergei M. Kuzenko

The Newman-Penrose map, which is closely related to the classical double copy, associates certain exact solutions of Einstein's equations with self-dual solutions of the vacuum Maxwell equations. Here we initiate an extension of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-20 Kara Farnsworth , Michael Graesser , Gabriel Herczeg

Recent work has shown how on-shell three-point amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity, representing the coupling to massive particles, correspond in the classical limit to the curvature spinors of linearised solutions. This connection, made…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-25 Ricardo Monteiro , Silvia Nagy , Donal O'Connell , David Peinador Veiga , Matteo Sergola

The double copy relates scattering amplitudes and classical solutions in non-abelian gauge theories and gravity. As such, it is usually expressed in the conventional second-order formalisms in both theories corresponding to standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-29 Nathan Moynihan , Michael L. Reichenberg Ashby , Chris D. White

The Weyl double copy builds the relation between gauge theory and gravity theory, especially the correspondence between gauge solutions and gravity solutions. In this paper, we obtain the slowly rotating charge solutions from Weyl double…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Yi-Ran Liu , Jing-Rui Zhang , Yun-Long Zhang

In spinor formalism, since any massless free-field spinor with spin higher than $1/2$ can be constructed with spin-1/2 spinors (Dirac-Weyl spinors) and scalars, we introduce a map between Weyl fields and Dirac-Weyl fields. We determine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Shanzhong Han

Recently, the study of three-dimensional spaces is becoming of great interest. In these dimensions the Cotton tensor is prominent as the substitute for the Weyl tensor. It is conformally invariant and its vanishing is equivalent to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Garcia , F. W. Hehl , C. Heinicke , A. Macias

Gauge-gravity duality is arguably our best hope for understanding quantum gravity. Considerable progress has been made in relating scattering amplitudes in certain gravity theories to those in gauge theories---a correspondence dubbed the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Gilly Elor , Kara Farnsworth , Michael L. Graesser , Gabriel Herczeg

We examine the Weyl double copy relation for vacuum solutions of the Einstein equations with a cosmological constant using the approach we previously described, in which the spin-1/2 massless free-field spinors (Dirac-Weyl fields) are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Shanzhong Han

The classical double copy relates solutions to the equations of motion in gauge theory and in gravity. In this paper, we present two double-copy formalisms for relating the Coulomb solution in gauge theory to the two-parameter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-02 Kwangeon Kim , Kanghoon Lee , Ricardo Monteiro , Isobel Nicholson , David Peinador Veiga

This is a review of recent developments in the study of perturbative gauge theory and gravity using action functionals on twistor space. It is intended to provide a user-friendly introduction to twistor actions, geared towards researchers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-10 Tim Adamo

We study the classical double copy of massive spinning objects in the worldline quantum field theories (WQFT) formalism. We couple the $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric model to a Yang-Mills background to describe the propagation of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-11 Francesco Comberiati , Canxin Shi

The double copy relates scattering amplitudes in gauge and gravity theories. It has also been extended to classical solutions, and a number of approaches have been developed for doing so. One of these involves expressing fields in a variety…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Andres Luna , Silvia Nagy , Chris White

We study a host of spacetimes where the Weyl curvature may be expressed algebraically in terms of an Abelian field strength. These include Type D spacetimes in four and higher dimensions which obey a simple quadratic relation between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Rashid Alawadhi , David S. Berman , Bill Spence