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Higher-dimensional twistor transforms using pure spinors

Nathan Berkovits1 and Sergey A. Cherkis2,3

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Hughston has shown that projective pure spinors can be used to construct massless solutions in higher dimensions, generalizing the four-dimensional twistor transform of Penrose. In any even (euclidean) dimension d = 2n , projective pure spinors parameterize the coset space SO(2n)/U(n), which is the space of all complex structures on Bbb R2n . For d = 4 and d = 6, these spaces are Bbb CBbb P1 and Bbb CBbb P3 and the appropriate twistor transforms can easily be constructed. In this paper, we show how to construct the twistor transform for d>6 when the pure spinor satisfies nonlinear constraints, and present explicit formulas for solutions of the massless field equations.


Keywords

Conformal and W Symmetry

Field Theories in Higher Dimensions

 

E-print Number: hep-th/0409243

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PACS

11.10.Kk Field theories in dimensions other than four

11.30.Ly Other internal and higher symmetries

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 12 (December 2004)

Received 24 November 2004, accepted for publication 18 December 2004

Published 25 January 2005



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