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Twistor description of spinning particles in AdS

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Peer-reviewed

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Authors

Arvanitakis, AS 
Barns-Graham, AE 

Abstract

The two-twistor formulation of particle mechanics in D-dimensional anti-de Sitter space for D=4,5,7, which linearises invariance under the AdS isometry group Sp(4;K) for K=R,C,H,, is generalized to the massless N-extended ``spinning particle''. The twistor variables are gauge invariant with respect to the initial N local worldline supersymmetries; this simplifies aspects of the quantum theory such as implications of global gauge anomalies. We also give details of the two-supertwistor form of the superparticle, in particular the massive superparticle on AdS5.

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Keywords

Extended Supersymmetry, Field Theories in Higher Dimensions, Sigma Models, Space-Time Symmetries

Journal Title

Journal of High Energy Physics

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Journal ISSN

1126-6708
1029-8479

Volume Title

2018

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC