A connection between twistors and superstring sigma models on coset superspaces

作者：Wolf Martin^*

来源：The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009, 2009(9): 071.

DOI：10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/071

• Integrable Equations in Physics
• Superstrings and Heterotic Strings
• AdS-CFT Correspondence
• Integrable Field Theories

We consider superstring sigma models that are based on coset superspaces G/H in which H arises as the fixed point set of an order-4 automorphism of G. We show by means of twistor theory that the corresponding first-order system, consisting of the Maurer-Cartan equations and the equations of motion, arises from a dimensional reduction of some generalised self-dual Yang-Mills equations in eight dimensions. Such a relationship might help shed light on the explicit construction of solutions to the superstring equations including their hidden symmetry structures and thus on the properties of their gauge theory duals.

• 出版日期2009-9