A. Rosly - Self-Dual Yang-Mills Theories

by Alexey Rosly (ITEP Moscow)

Wednesday 10 Dec 2014, 14:30 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

E. Majorana lecture hall (LNGS)

We shall discuss a first-order gauge theory whose equations of motion are the self-duality equations. There are reasons to regard this theory as a "part" of standard YM Lagrangian responsible for "mostly plus" scattering amplitudes. The quantum properties of this self-dual theory are peculiarly simple, but still instructive, and hint at a possible complete solvability. This type of theory, on one hand, can be related to a certain limit of (twisted) N=2 super Yang-Mills theory, while, on the other hand, it is equivalent to a holomorphic Chern-Simons type theory on twistor space classically and presumably quantum mechanically.
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Alexey Rosly
ITEP Moscow

Poster LNGS_Seminar2014Rosly.pdf