Twistors and 2T-physics

Journal Article · Mon Apr 25 04:00:00 EDT 2005 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1923327· OSTI ID:20630895

Bars, I ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484 (United States)

Two-Time physics applies broadly to the formulation of physics and correctly describes the physical world as we know it. Recently it was applied to a 2T re-formulation of the d = 4 twistor superstring, which was suggested by Witten as an efficient approach for computations of physical processes in the maximally supersymmetric N = 4 Yang-Mills field theory in four dimensions. The 2T formalism provides a six dimensional view of this theory and suggests the existence of other d = 4 dual forms of the same theory. Furthermore the 2T approach led to the first formulation of a twistor superstring in d = 10 appropriate for AdS5xS5 backgrounds, and a twistor superstring in d = 6 related to the little understood superconformal theory in d = 6. The proper generalization of twistors to higher dimensions is an essential ingredient which is provided naturally by 2T-physics. These developments are summarized in this lecture.

• OSTI ID: 20630895
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 767; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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