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Higher-dimensional twistor transforms using pure spinors

Nathan Berkovits et al JHEP12(2004)049   doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/12/049  Help

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Nathan Berkovits1 and Sergey A. Cherkis2,3
1 Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rua Pamplona 145, 01405-900, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
2 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ 08540, U.S.A.
3 Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
E-mail: nberkovi@ift.unesp.br

Abstract. 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.

Key words: Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Conformal and W Symmetry

E-print number: hep-th/0409243
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Received 24 November 2004, accepted for publication 18 December 2004
Published 25 January 2005

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