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This article gives a study of the higher-dimensional Penrose transform between conformally invariant massless fields on space-time and cohomology classes on twistor space, where twistor space is defined to be the space of projective pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-24 L. J. Mason , R. A. Reid-Edwards , A. Taghavi-Chabert

The study of three dimensional CFT correlators in twistor space has recently garnered a significant interest. Conformal symmetry acts linearly in the twistor space, which streamlines the analysis. Moreover, twistors provide a connection to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Deep Mazumdar

We develop a manifest supertwistor space formalism for three dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1, 2,3,4$ superconformal field theories. This formalism simultaneously makes manifest the supersymmetry, conformal invariance and conservation. We solve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-27 Aswini Bala , Sachin Jain , Dhruva K. S. , Deep Mazumdar , Vibhor Singh , Brijesh Thakkar

Massless spinning correlators in cosmology are extremely complicated. In contrast, the scattering amplitudes of massless particles with spin are very simple. We propose that the reason for the unreasonable complexity of these correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-17 Daniel Baumann , Grégoire Mathys , Guilherme L. Pimentel , Facundo Rost

Here we discuss the construction of Sp$(4;\mathbb{R})$ invariant objects in the twistor space for three dimensional conformal field theories. The Sp$(4;\mathbb{R})$ invariant projective delta function, alongside the Twistor symplectic dot…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Aswini Bala , Dhruva K. S

In this paper, we develop a momentum super space formalism for $\mathcal{N}=1,2$ superconformal field theories in three dimensions. First, we solve for super-correlators in the usual momentum superspace variables. However, we found that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-07 Sachin Jain , Dhruva K. S , Deep Mazumdar , Shivang Yadav

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

In these lectures I will discuss the following topics: (1) Twistors in 4 flat dimensions: Massless particles; constrained phase space (x,p) versus twistors; Physical states in twistor space. (2) Introduction to 2T-physics and derivation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Itzhak Bars

In previous work by two of the present authors, twistors were re-interpreted as 4-d spinors with a position dependence within the formalism of geometric (Clifford) algebra. Here we extend that approach and justify the nature of the position…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elsa Arcaute , Anthony Lasenby , Chris Doran

We develop the embedding formalism for conformal field theories, aimed at doing computations with symmetric traceless operators of arbitrary spin. We use an index-free notation where tensors are encoded by polynomials in auxiliary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-26 Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , David Poland , Slava Rychkov

This paper is intended to describe twistors via the paravector model of Clifford algebras and to relate such description to conformal maps in the Clifford algebra over R(4,1), besides pointing out some applications of the pure spinor…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roldao da Rocha , Jayme Vaz

We examine recent advancements of the spinor helicity formalism of massive particles. Technical aspects about the formulation of massive helicity spinors are presented in detail to analyze the projective-geometry kinematics of helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Camille Gomez-Laberge

We studied the quantum dynamics of six dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(2, 0)$ superconformal field theory (the QNG theory). We developed the spinor technique for six-dimensional quantum field theories. By combining this technique with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-25 Tong Chern

Following suggestions of Nekrasov and Siegel, a non-minimal set of fields are added to the pure spinor formalism for the superstring. Twisted $\hat c$=3 N=2 generators are then constructed where the pure spinor BRST operator is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nathan Berkovits

This thesis consists of an introductory text, which is divided into two parts, and six appended research papers. The first part contains a general discussion on conformal and superconformal symmetry in six dimensions, and treats how the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Par Arvidsson

We review the relation between the "embedding" formalism and spinorial projective space. The latter is more convenient when treating spin (and indispensable for supersymmetry), as it maintains manifest conformal symmetry while using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-02 W. Siegel

We develop a twistor-space framework to compute boundary correlators via a boundary limit of nested Penrose transforms in (A)dS$_4$. Starting from correlators of (anti-)self-dual bulk fields, the boundary limit reproduces the correlators of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-05 Mariana Carrillo González , Théo Keseman

In applied mathematics generally and fluid dynamics in particular, the role of complex variable methods is normally confined to two-dimensional motion and the association of points with complex numbers via the assignment w = x+i y. In this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-05-25 William T. Shaw

The aim of this paper is to study three dimensional Lorentzian conformal field theories in twistor space. We formulate the conformal Ward identities and solve for two and three point Lorentzian Wightman functions. We found that the Helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-27 Aswini Bala , Sachin Jain , Dhruva K. S. , Deep Mazumdar , Vibhor Singh

For conformal field theories in arbitrary dimensions, we introduce a method to derive the conformal blocks corresponding to the exchange of a traceless symmetric tensor appearing in four point functions of operators with spin. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , David Poland , Slava Rychkov
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