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Nathan Berkovits and Sergey A. Cherkis JHEP12(2004)049 doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/12/049

Higher-dimensional twistor transforms using pure spinors

Nathan Berkovits1 and Sergey A. Cherkis2,3

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