Twistor! Spring 2022

The goal of this seminar is to understand twistor theory and some of its relations to other parts of mathematical physics.

Time and location information

Organisers: Sam DeHority, Zoe Himwich, Davis Lazowski
Time/date: Wednesday 11am-12:15pm EST
Location: Math 622

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Plan/references

Beginning with an introduciton to twistors and spinors, the plan is to understand some parts of

1. Scattering amplitudes and their relation to holomorphic curves in twistor space, starting from the work https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312171 and other developments including https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0402045, https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0885.
2. Developments in ambitwistor theory, perhaps from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.2564.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05636.pdf.
3. Understanding the quantization of certain twistor field theories in https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08879 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02595 after a slow introduction to the BV formalism.

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