Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space

Journal article

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 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 N<4 supersymmetry, and show how matter multiplets may be coupled to the gauge sector.

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

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: JHEP
• Volume: 0702
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 014
• Publication date: 2006-04-06
• DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/014
• EISSN: 1029-8479
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• Keywords: hep-th