Supersymmetric gauge theories in twistor space

Journal article

We construct a twistor space action for ≤ 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 twistor-string proposal, showing that although our theory is closely related to string theory, it is free from conformal supergravity. We also provide twistor actions for gauge theories with <4 supersymmetry, and show how matter multiplets may be coupled to the gauge sector. © SISSA 2007.

Authors: Boels, R; Mason, L; Skinner, D

• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Volume: 2007
• Issue: 2
• Publication date: 2007-02-01
• DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/014
• EISSN: 1029-8479
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• Language: English
• Keywords: Duality in Gauge field theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory