Heterotic twistor-string theory

Details Heterotic twistor-string theory Heterotic twistor-string theory

2007-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/0708.2276v1

Nucl.Phys.B795:105-137,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

45 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.11.010

We reformulate twistor-string theory as a heterotic string based on a twisted (0,2) model. The path integral localizes on holomorphic maps, while the (0,2) moduli naturally correspond to the states of N=4 super Yang-Mills and conformal supergravity under the Penrose transform. We show how the standard twistor-string formulae of scattering amplitudes as integrals over the space of curves in supertwistor space may be obtained from our model. The corresponding string field theory gives rise to a twistor action for N=4 conformal supergravity coupled to super Yang-Mills. The model helps to explain how the twistor-strings of Witten and Berkovits are related and clarifies various aspects of each of these models.

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