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Gravity from rational curves in twistor space.

Freddy Cachazo1, David Skinner.   

Abstract

This Letter presents a new formula which is conjectured to yield all tree amplitudes in N=8 supergravity. The amplitudes are described in terms of higher degree rational maps to twistor space. The resulting expression has manifest N=8 supersymmetry and is manifestly permutation symmetric in all external states. It depends monomially on the infinity twistor that explicitly breaks conformal symmetry to Poincaré symmetry. We have carried out various nontrivial analytic and numerical checks of the formula for up to eight external states with arbitrary helicities.

Year:  2013        PMID: 23679592     DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.161301

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Phys Rev Lett        ISSN: 0031-9007            Impact factor:   9.161


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Review 1.  Twistor theory at fifty: from contour integrals to twistor strings.

Authors:  Michael Atiyah; Maciej Dunajski; Lionel J Mason
Journal:  Proc Math Phys Eng Sci       Date:  2017-10-11       Impact factor: 2.704

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