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Twistor strings for N=8 supergravity

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Abstract

This paper presents a worldsheet theory describing holomorphic maps to twistor space with  fermionic directions. The theory is anomaly free when  = 8. Via the Penrose transform, the vertex operators correspond to an  = 8 Einstein supergravity multiplet. In the first instance, the theory describes gauged supergravity in AdS4. Upon taking the flat space, ungauged limit, the complete classical S-matrix is recovered from worldsheet correlation functions.

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Keywords

Supergravity Models, Superstrings and Heterotic Strings, Topological Strings

Journal Title

The Journal of High Energy Physics

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1029-8479
1029-8479

Volume Title

2020

Publisher

Springer Nature
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European Commission (631289)