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arxiv: 1301.0868 · v1 · pith:K4SNIJQ5new · submitted 2013-01-05 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Twistor Strings for N=8 Supergravity

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keywords supergravitytheoryspacetwistorworldsheetanomalyclassicalcomplete
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This paper presents a worldsheet theory describing holomorphic maps to twistor space with N fermionic directions. The theory is anomaly free when N=8. Via the Penrose transform, the vertex operators correspond to an N=8 Einstein supergravity multiplet. In the first instance, the theory describes gauged supergravity in AdS_4. Upon taking the flat space, ungauged limit, the complete classical S-matrix is recovered from worldsheet correlation functions.

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