Meeting on 9/24/2004

Time: Friday, Sep 24, 2004, 3:10pm
Place: 430 Birge Hall

Introduction to Witten's Program:
Yang-Mills and Twistor String Theory

Abstract

In [hep-th/0312171] Witten demonstrated that certain perturbative scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory define holomorphic curves in the complex projective space CP^3. The construction uses Twistor Theory, and suggests that perturbative Yang-Mills theory can be recast as a string theory in Twistor Space.

I will review the basic ideas of Twistor Theory and Witten's construction.

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