Twistor actions for non-self-dual fields; a new foundation for twistor-string theory

Journal article

Twistor space constructions and actions are given for full Yang-Mills and conformal gravity using almost complex structures that are not, in general, integrable. These are used as the basis of a derivation of the twistor-string generating functionals for tree level perturbative scattering amplitudes of Yang-Mills and conformal gravity. The derivation follows by expanding and resumming the classical approximation to the path integral obtained from the twistor action. It provides a basis for exploring whether the equivalence can be made to extend beyond tree level and allows one to disentangle conformal supergravity modes from the Yang-Mills modes.

Authors: Mason, L

• Publication status: Published
• Publication date: 2005-07-27
• DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/009
• EISSN: 1029-8479
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• Keywords: math-ph; math.DG; hep-th; gr-qc; math.MP